Security readout for executives and security teams
This is an old PHP vulnerability where a specially sized message-receive value could overflow internal handling and may allow arbitrary code execution. Business risk is mainly in legacy PHP 4 or early PHP 5 systems, especially on FreeBSD, that still expose code paths using PHP message queues. Exposure is likely limited to unsupported legacy PHP deployments using msg_receive, particularly FreeBSD systems. Modern supported PHP versions are not identified as affected in the provided sources. Prioritize if the organization still operates legacy PHP 4 or early PHP 5 systems. For modern PHP estates, urgency is lower, but legacy discovery is important because the potential impact includes code execution. Mitigation focus: Upgrade affected PHP 4 and PHP 5 runtimes beyond the fixed versions or to supported PHP.; Identify and prioritize FreeBSD hosts running legacy PHP message queue functionality.; Review application code paths using msg_receive for attacker-controlled size values..
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- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- php-msgreceive-overflow(33775)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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