CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-4782

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2007-09-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-09-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

PHP before 5.2.3 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a long string in the pattern parameter to the glob function; or (2) a long string in the string parameter to the fnmatch function, accompanied by a pattern parameter value with undefined characteristics, as demonstrated by a "*[1]e" value. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability in most web server environments that support multiple threads, unless these issues can be demonstrated for code execution.

Affected configurations

• php php (<= 5.2.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References