Denial of Service Vulnerability in PHP ZipArchive Functions

CVE-2011-1657 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The (1) ZipArchive::addGlob and (2) ZipArchive::addPattern functions in ext/zip/php_zip.c in PHP 5.3.6 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via certain flags arguments, as demonstrated by (a) GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC and (b) GLOB_APPEND.

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