CVE-2011-3268

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the crypt function in PHP before 5.3.7 allows context-dependent attackers to have an unspecified impact via a long salt argument, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2483.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.3.6; 1.0, 2.0, 2.0b10, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 (+98)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/74738
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/standard/php_crypt_r.c?r1=311300&r2=311390&pathrev=315218
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:165
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.7
http://www.php.net/archive/2011.php#id2011-08-18-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49241
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/69427
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://osvdb.org/74738
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130

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