| Name | CVE-2011-4718 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| php5 (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 5.6.40+dfsg-0+deb8u21 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| php5 | source | (unstable) | 5.5.2+dfsg-1 | low | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - php5 <no-dsa> (Too intrusive to backport, mitigations exists)
[squeeze] - php5 <no-dsa> (Too intrusive to backport, mitigations exists)
5.5.2 implements strict sessions RFC (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/strict_sessions)