CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4645

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-01-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-01-11
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-189

Description

strtod.c, as used in the zend_strtod function in PHP 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 5.3 before 5.3.5, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain floating-point value in scientific notation, which is not properly handled in x87 FPU registers, as demonstrated using 2.2250738585072011e-308.

Affected configurations

• php php 5.2.0 • php php 5.2.1 • php php 5.2.2 • php php 5.2.3 • php php 5.2.4 • php php 5.2.5 • php php 5.2.6 • php php 5.2.7 • php php 5.2.8 • php php 5.2.9 • php php 5.2.10 • php php 5.2.11 • php php 5.2.12 • php php 5.2.13 • php php 5.2.14 • php php 5.2.15 • php php 5.2.16 • php php 5.3.0 • php php 5.3.1 • php php 5.3.2 • php php 5.3.3 • php php 5.3.4

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References