CVE-2010-1861: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sysvshm extension for PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to write to arbitrary memory addresses by using an object's __sleep function to interrupt an internal call to the shm_put_var function, which triggers access of a freed resource.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.2.1 only; version 5.2.2 only; version 5.2.3 only; version 5.2.4 only; version 5.2.5 only; …

Published 2010-05-07. Last modified 2026-06-16.