CVE-2012-2688

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-07-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the _php_stream_scandir function in the stream implementation in PHP before 5.3.15 and 5.4.x before 5.4.5 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors, related to an "overflow."

Affected products

PHP: through 5.3.14; 1.0, 2.0, 2.0b10, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 (+115)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00022.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1307.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/55078
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2527
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:108
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54638
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027287
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1569-1

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