CVE-2011-1470

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Zip extension in PHP before 5.3.6 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a ziparchive stream that is not properly handled by the stream_get_contents function.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.3.5; 1.0, 2.0, 2.0b10, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 (+102)

References

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53579
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:052
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:053
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46969
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0744
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53579
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:052

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