CVE-2011-1657: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 5.3.6 only

Published 2011-08-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.