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CVE-2006-4812

HIGH severity · CVSS 10 · Code injection
10CVSS HIGH

Summary

Integer overflow in PHP 5 up to 5.1.6 and 4 before 4.3.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an argument to the unserialize PHP function with a large value for the number of array elements, which triggers the overflow in the Zend Engine ecalloc function (Zend/zend_alloc.c).

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required
User interaction
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Exploit probability (EPSS)39%

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

Affected products we track (1)

PHP

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0708.html ↗

Last checked: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:30 UTC