Denial of service in PHP - #VU10351

 

Denial of service in PHP - #VU10351

Published: February 1, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU10351
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: PHP Group
Affected software:
PHP

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an error when handling malicious calls. A remote attacker can cause the fast CGI process to crash when PHP calls getenv() with a second parameter (local_only) of false.

Remediation

Update to version 7.2.2.

Sources