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CVE-2012-2376 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in the com_print_typeinfo function in PHP 5.4.3 and earlier on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code vi…

published 2012-05-21 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-2366

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.8%
EPSS 19.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the com_print_typeinfo function in PHP 5.4.3 and earlier on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments that trigger incorrect handling of COM object VARIANT types, as exploited in the wild in May 2012.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-2376 updated cvss 5.1

php: Buffer overflow in com_print_typeinfo() by parsing certain variant types

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php, php53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-18861)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

19.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-18861 PHP 5.4.3 (Windows x86 Polish) - Code Execution local, 2012-05-11

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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