CVE-2007-4784 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

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.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-62hc-q3qg-gmvg.

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