CVE-2011-4718

Publication date 13 August 2013

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in the Sessions subsystem in PHP before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions by specifying a session ID.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	13.04 raring	Ignored end of life
	12.10 quantal	Ignored end of life
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

changes are too intrusive to backport to earlier releases. workarounds are available in upstream wiki.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=25e8fcc88fa20dc9d4c47184471003f436927cde Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=169b78eb79b0e080b67f9798708eb3771c6d0b2f Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=82b0e8be99065b61b622df21bbc7494d2fbca3cd Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=b80d73ce154e7f740f9ada446f45dbcdac38a64b