CVE - CVE-2007-4784

CVE-ID
CVE-2007-4784	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BUGTRAQ:20070904 PHP < 5.2.4 setlocale() denial of service URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478627/100/0/threaded GENTOO:GLSA-200710-02 URL:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml OSVDB:38687 URL:~~http://osvdb.org/38687~~ (Obsolete source) SECUNIA:27102 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/27102 SECUNIA:28658 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 SREASON:3114 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3114 SUSE:SUSE-SA:2008:004 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html XF:php-setlocale-dos(36458) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36458
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20070910	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20070910)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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