Uncontrolled Recursion in PHP - CVE-2007-1285
Published: February 2, 2024 / Updated: June 13, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110454
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-1285
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
Public exploit is available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The Zend Engine in PHP 4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and PHP crash) via deeply nested arrays, which trigger deep recursion in the variable destruction routines.
Affected software
PHP
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php
How to mitigate CVE-2007-1285
Install update from vendor's website.
PHP - update to 4.4.7
dev-lang/php - update to 5.2.2
dev-lang/php - update to 5.2.2
Links to Public Exploits and PoC-codes
External References
- http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-03-2007.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0082.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22764
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017771
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0154.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0155.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24910
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24924
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1268
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0163.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0162.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24945
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24941
- http://us2.php.net/releases/4_4_7.php
- http://us2.php.net/releases/5_2_2.php
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24909
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.4
- http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_4.php
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-19.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:087
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:088
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:089
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:090
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-07/msg00006.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-549-2
- http://www.osvdb.org/32769
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25445
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26642
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27864
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php
- http://www.php.net/releases/4_4_8.php
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.335136
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28936
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11017
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/549-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466166/100/0/threaded