# CVE-2005-4857: Denial of service in n/a

> Authenticated users can crash the Apache server via a malformed search request in eZ publish, causing denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.0 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Jul 2007
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-pm94-gq37-wp9p

## What is CVE-2005-4857?

CVE-2005-4857 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Jul 2007. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

eZ publish 3.5 before 3.5.7, 3.6 before 3.6.5, 3.7 before 3.7.3, and 3.8 before 20051128 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (Apache httpd segmentation fault) via a request to content/advancedsearch.php with an empty SearchContentClassID parameter, reportedly related to a "memory addressing error".

Weakness: CWE-399

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4857?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ez Ez Publish.

## How do I fix CVE-2005-4857?

No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4857 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2005-4857 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4857 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2007-4493](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2007-4493/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 10.0)
- [CVE-2005-4853](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-4853/): Missing authorization in n/a (critical 9.4)
- [CVE-2012-1565](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-1565/): Missing authorization in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2010-2672](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2010-2672/): SQL injection in n/a (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2008-6844](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-6844/): Privilege escalation in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2005-4857 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2005-4857 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Jul 2007. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4857 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-4857/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2005-4857/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4857
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4857
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2005-4857

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