PT-2007-5819 · Php · Php

Published 2007-09-04 · Updated 2018-10-03 · CVE-2007-4661

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: PHP version 5.2.3

Description: The issue is related to the chunk split function in string.c, which does not properly calculate the needed buffer size due to precision loss when performing integer arithmetic with floating point numbers. This could possibly result in a heap-based buffer overflow. The attack vectors and impact are unknown.

Recommendations: For PHP version 5.2.3, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-4661

RHSA-2007:0917

Affected Products

Php

References · 16

• 🔥 http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/string.c?r1=1.445.2.14.2.58&r2=1.445.2.14.2.59 · Exploit
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-549-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4661 · Security Note
• http://php.net/releases/5_2_4.php · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26642 · Patch
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/549-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27864 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4661 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26838 · Note
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043 · Note
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1702 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27102 · Note