CVE-2011-0420

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-0420
StatePUBLISHED
Assignercertcc
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-02-19 01:00:02 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe grapheme_extract function in the Internationalization extension (Intl) for ICU for PHP 5.3.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid size argument, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Php Php 5.3.5 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PHP 5.3.5 grapheme_extract() NULL Pointer Dereference - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
PHP 'grapheme_extract()' NULL Pointer Dereference Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2266-1 php5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
APPLE-SA-2011-10-12-3 OS X Lion v10.7.2 and Security Update 2011-006 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
PHP 5.3.5 grapheme_extract() NULL Pointer Dereference af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
About the security content of OS X Lion v10.7.2 and Security Update 2011-006 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com
CERT Vulnerability Notes Database af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
PHP 5.3.5 grapheme_extract() NULL Pointer Dereference ( Research Advisory ) - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com Exploit
PHP: Diff of /php/php-src/trunk/ext/intl/grapheme/grapheme_string.c af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 svn.php.net Patch
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
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