CVE-2012-6113 (GCVE-0-2012-6113)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-01-19 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:28
VLAI
Summary
The openssl_encrypt function in ext/openssl/openssl.c in PHP 5.3.9 through 5.3.13 does not initialize a certain variable, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by providing zero bytes of input data.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2013-01-18 00:00
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