CVE-2007-4784

Published Sep 10, 2007

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
The setlocale function in PHP before 5.2.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the locale parameter. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability in most web server environments that support multiple threads, unless this issue can be demonstrated for code execution.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-20

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Vendor comments

  • Red HatWe do not consider this to be a security issue. For more information please see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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