CVE-2007-4784 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can crash PHP applications by passing a long string to the setlocale function, causing a denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not stated
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not stated
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2007-4784?
CVE-2007-4784 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Php Php, published on 10 Sep 2007. It can be exploited over the network.
Official description
The setlocale function in PHP before 5.2.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the locale parameter. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability in most web server environments that support multiple threads, unless this issue can be demonstrated for code execution.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-4784?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Php Php.
How do I fix CVE-2007-4784?
No fix has been published for CVE-2007-4784 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-2007-4784 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-4784 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Php Php
Sources
Also known as GHSA-62hc-q3qg-gmvg.