The Researcher used radamsa fuzzer (fuzzer for both text based generations and also binary file format mutations) and a python script created by him which uses the python-ptrace signal handling module and allows to catch any crashes and categorizes them depending on the signal number. POC: Result: The bug exposes serializer to user-controlled data and can trigger a crash when parsing specially crafted serialized data with the [unserialized]. The Vulnerability has been allotted “CVE-2014-3669” and a patch has been released by the PHP Warning: Class __PHP_Incomplete_Class has no unserializer in /home/user/Desktop/poc.php on line 2 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. ————————————————————————–[regs] EAX: 0x3510DAB3 EBX: 0xB510C74C ECX: 0x3510DAB4 EDX: 0xBFFFBA88 o d I t s z A p C ESI: 0x00000000 EDI: 0x00000000 EBP: 0xBFFFB918 ESP: 0xBFFFB918 EIP: 0x0850505F CS: 0073 DS: 007B ES: 007B FS: 0000 GS: 0033 SS: 007B ————————————————————————–[code] => 0x850505f <finish_nested_data+16>: movzx eax,BYTE PTR [eax] 0x8505062 <finish_nested_data+19>: cmp al,0x7d …. snip …. ——————————————————————————– 0x0850505f in finish_nested_data (rval=0xbfffbab4, p=0xbfffba88, max=0xb510dab9 “”, var_hash=0xbfffba84, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/ext/standard/var_unserializer.c:356 356 if (*((*p)++) == ‘}’) gdb$ bt #0 0x0850505f in finish_nested_data (rval=0xbfffbab4, p=0xbfffba88, max=0xb510dab9 “”, var_hash=0xbfffba84, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/ext/standard/var_unserializer.c:356 #1 0x085051bb in object_custom (rval=0xbfffbab4, p=0xbfffba88, max=0xb510dab9 “”, var_hash=0xbfffba84, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338, ce=0x8da10d0) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/ext/standard/var_unserializer.c:387 #2 0x085062cb in php_var_unserialize (rval=0xbfffbab4, p=0xbfffba88, max=0xb510dab9 “”, var_hash=0xbfffba84, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/ext/standard/var_unserializer.c:738 #3 0x084f264a in zif_unserialize (ht=0x1, return_value=0xb510c74c, return_value_ptr=0x0, this_ptr=0x0, return_value_used=0x0, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/ext/standard/var.c:965 #4 0x0862eeda in zend_do_fcall_common_helper_SPEC (execute_data=0xb50ef08c, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:550 #5 0x08633b66 in ZEND_DO_FCALL_SPEC_CONST_HANDLER (execute_data=0xb50ef08c, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:2332 #6 0x0862e411 in execute_ex (execute_data=0xb50ef08c, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:363 #7 0x0862e4cf in zend_execute (op_array=0xb510cff0, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:388 #8 0x085f1f1d in zend_execute_scripts (type=0x8, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338, retval=0x0, file_count=0x3) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/Zend/zend.c:1330 #9 0x08556b7e in php_execute_script (primary_file=0xbfffeee4, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/main/main.c:2506 #10 0x0869dee7 in do_cli (argc=0x2, argv=0x8c812a0, tsrm_ls=0x8c81338) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:994 #11 0x0869f279 in main (argc=0x2, argv=0x8c812a0) at /home/user/Desktop/php-5.5.17/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1378