Critical
Security advisory
In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.13 and 7.4.0 on Windows, when supplying custom headers to mail() function, due to mistake introduced in commit 78f4b4a2dcf92ddbccea1bb95f8390a18ac3342e, if the header is supplied in lowercase, this can result in double-freeing certain memory locations.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11049
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.13 and 7.4.0 on Windows, when supplying custom headers to mail() function, due to mistake introduced in commit 78f4b4a2dcf92ddbccea1bb95f8390a18ac3342e, if the header is supplied in lowercase, this can result in double-freeing certain memory locations.
osv:CVE-2019-11049
Complete source record
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