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php: Double free in the imap extension

Published Dec 7, 2010

Description

Double free vulnerability in the imap_do_open function in the IMAP extension (ext/imap/php_imap.c) in PHP 5.2 before 5.2.15 and 5.3 before 5.3.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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Red Hat statement

We do not consider safe_mode / open_basedir restriction bypass issues to be security sensitive. For more details see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/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 Dec 7, 2010
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Nov 3, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date Nov 2, 2010