CVE-2007-4657 (GCVE-0-2007-4657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-04 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:01
VLAI
Summary
Multiple integer overflows in PHP 4 before 4.4.8, and PHP 5 before 5.2.4, allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) or cause a denial of service (thread crash) via a large len value to the (1) strspn or (2) strcspn function, which triggers an out-of-bounds read. NOTE: this affects different product versions than CVE-2007-3996.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2007-08-30 00:00
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