CVE-2011-1657

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-08-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The (1) ZipArchive::addGlob and (2) ZipArchive::addPattern functions in ext/zip/php_zip.c in PHP 5.3.6 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain flags arguments, as demonstrated by (a) GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC and (b) GLOB_APPEND.

Affected products

PHP: 5.3.6

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/100
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8342
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=310814
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/zip/php_zip.c?view=log
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:165
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/01/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/01/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/01/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519385/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49252

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