CVE-2007-1285 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-1285?

CVE-2007-1285 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Mar 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Zend Engine in PHP 4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and PHP crash) via deeply nested arrays, which trigger deep recursion in the variable destruction routines.

Weakness: CWE-674

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-1285?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Novell Suse Linux, Php Php, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2007-1285?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-1285 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-1285 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-jhxw-fqxp-j75j.