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php: addcslashes interruption vulnerability (MOPS-2010-006)

Published May 7, 2010

Description

The addcslashes function in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) by causing a userspace interruption of an internal function, related to the call time pass by reference feature.

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Red Hat statement

Red Hat does not consider interruption issues allowing safe_mode / open_basedir restriction bypass to be security sensitive. For more details see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published May 7, 2010
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved May 7, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date May 3, 2010