CVE-2015-4024 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-4024?

CVE-2015-4024 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 9 Jun 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the multipart_buffer_headers function in main/rfc1867.c in PHP before 5.4.41, 5.5.x before 5.5.25, and 5.6.x before 5.6.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted form data that triggers an improper order-of-growth outcome.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-4024?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Hp System Management Homepage, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, Php Php, Redhat Enterprise Linux and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-4024?

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-2015-4024 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-4024 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apple Mac Os X

• CVE-2014-7169 GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-6271 GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2012-1823 PHP-CGI Query String Parameter Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-30713 Apple macOS Unspecified Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2019-8526 Apple macOS Use-After-Free Exploited High 7.8

All Apple Mac Os X vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-92mh-q8c5-wgqv, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4024.