CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-4020

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2006-08-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-08-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

scanf.c in PHP 5.1.4 and earlier, and 4.4.3 and earlier, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a sscanf PHP function call that performs argument swapping, which increments an index past the end of an array and triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected configurations

• php php 4.0 • php php 4.0.0 • php php 4.0.1 • php php 4.0.2 • php php 4.0.3 • php php 4.0.4 • php php 4.0.5 • php php 4.0.6 • php php 4.0.7 • php php 4.1.0 • php php 4.1.1 • php php 4.1.2 • php php 4.2 • php php 4.2.0 • php php 4.2.1 • php php 4.2.2 • php php 4.2.3 • php php 4.3.0 • php php 4.3.1 • php php 4.3.2 • php php 4.3.3 • php php 4.3.4 • php php 4.3.5 • php php 4.3.6 • php php 4.3.7 • php php 4.3.8 • php php 4.3.9 • php php 4.3.10 • php php 4.3.11 • php php 4.4.0 • php php 4.4.1 • php php 4.4.2 • php php 4.4.3 • php php 5.0 • php php 5.0.0 • php php 5.0.1 • php php 5.0.2 • php php 5.0.3 • php php 5.0.4 • php php 5.0.5 • php php 5.1.0 • php php 5.1.1 • php php 5.1.2 • php php 5.1.4

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