CVE-2007-0908 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2007-0908?

CVE-2007-0908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Feb 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The WDDX deserializer in the wddx extension in PHP 5 before 5.2.1 and PHP 4 before 4.4.5 does not properly initialize the key_length variable for a numerical key, which allows context-dependent attackers to read stack memory via a wddxPacket element that contains a variable with a string name before a numerical variable.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-0908?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2007-0908?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2007-0908 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-0908 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cp4j-q49w-68jf.