CVE-2013-4113 Memory corruption in n/a
Medium 6.8
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2013-4113 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2013-4113 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Php Php, published on 13 Jul 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4113 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Php Php. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4113/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-4113/index.md)
Remote attackers can cause denial of service or potential code execution via crafted XML documents processed by the PHP xml_parse_into_struct function.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2013-4113?
CVE-2013-4113 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Php Php, published on 13 Jul 2013. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
ext/xml/xml.c in PHP before 5.3.27 does not properly consider parsing depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document that is processed by the xml_parse_into_struct function.
Weakness: CWE-787
Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4113?
It affects 1 product.
Linux distribution packages (40)
php Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-bcmath Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-cli Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-dba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-gd Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-imap Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-ldap Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-mbstring Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-mysql Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-ncurses Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-odbc Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-pdo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-pgsql Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-snmp Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-soap Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-xml Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php-xmlrpc Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.1.6-40.el5_9 |
php53 Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-bcmath Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-cli Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-common Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-dba Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-gd Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-imap Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-intl Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-ldap Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-mbstring Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-mysql Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-odbc Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-pdo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-pgsql Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-process Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-pspell Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-snmp Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
php53-soap Red Hat:enterprise_linux:5::server | All versions | 0:5.3.3-13.el5_9.1 |
Products include Php Php.
How do I fix CVE-2013-4113?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2013-4113 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4113 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Php Php
Sources
Also known as DSA-2723-1, GHSA-v4m9-5ffp-5x82, MGASA-2013-0216, MGASA-2013-0233, RHSA-2013:1049, RHSA-2013:1050 and 3 more.