CVE-2007-1717 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can truncate email messages by injecting null bytes, preventing delivery of critical trailing information in PHP applications.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-1717?
CVE-2007-1717 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Php Php, published on 28 Mar 2007. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The mail function in PHP 4.0.0 through 4.4.6 and 5.0.0 through 5.2.1 truncates e-mail messages at the first ASCIIZ ('\0') byte, which might allow context-dependent attackers to prevent intended information from being delivered in e-mail messages. NOTE: this issue might be security-relevant in cases when the trailing contents of e-mail messages are important, such as logging information or if the message is expected to be well-formed.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-1717?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Php Php.
How do I fix CVE-2007-1717?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-1717 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2007-1717 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2007-1717 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Php Php
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jq2w-7pmj-9wpw.