Denial of service in PHP - CVE-2014-0237

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Denial of service in PHP - CVE-2014-0237

Published: November 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16084
CSH Severity: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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: CVE-2014-0237
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
PHP
Software vendor:
PHP Group

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists in cdf_unpack_summary_info function in cdf.c in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.29 and 5.5.x before 5.5.13 due to performance degradation. A remote attacker can trigger many file_printf calls and cause the service to crash.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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