SB20250403142 - Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP
Published: April 3, 2025 Updated: June 14, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2007-1383)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Amber
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Integer overflow in the 16 bit variable reference counter in PHP 4 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by overflowing this counter, which causes the same variable to be destroyed twice, a related issue to CVE-2007-1286.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2005-0596)
CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform service disruption.
PHP 4 (PHP4) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by using the readfile function on a file whose size is a multiple of the page size.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24606
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25056
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-21.xml
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_32_php.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/32770
- http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-01-2007.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22765
- http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story42495.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12665