A vulnerability has been identified in PHP, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an integer overflow error in the "ecalloc()" [zend_alloc.c] function that does not properly validate user-supplied data before being used to allocate memory, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a vulnerable server via certain PHP scripts.
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2006-10-05 : Initial release
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