CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3379
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-11-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
Description
The is_a function in PHP 5.3.7 and 5.3.8 triggers a call to the __autoload function, which makes it easier for remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a crafted URL and leveraging potentially unsafe behavior in certain PEAR packages and custom autoloaders.
Affected configurations
• php php 5.3.7
• php php 5.3.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041 h20000.www2.hp.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8525 securityreason.com
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=317183 Patch
- http://www.byte.nl/blog/2011/09/23/security-bug-in-is_a-function-in-php-5-3-7-5-3-8/ Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519770/30/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55475 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741020 Patch
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041 h20000.www2.hp.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8525 securityreason.com
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=317183 Patch
- http://www.byte.nl/blog/2011/09/23/security-bug-in-is_a-function-in-php-5-3-7-5-3-8/ Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/519770/30/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55475 Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741020 Patch