Buffer overflow in PHP - CVE-2013-4113
Published: July 13, 2013 / Updated: July 28, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32631
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4113
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
ext/xml/xml.c in PHP before 5.3.27 does not properly consider parsing depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document that is processed by the xml_parse_into_struct function.
Affected software
PHP
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
php (Alpine package)
dev-lang/php
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
php (Alpine package)
dev-lang/php
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4113
Install update from vendor's website.
PHP - update to 5.3.27
php (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 5.3.26-r1, 5.3.27-r0
dev-lang/php - update to 5.5.16
php (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 5.3.26-r1, 5.3.27-r0
dev-lang/php - update to 5.5.16
External References
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=7d163e8a0880ae8af2dd869071393e5dc07ef271
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00034.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00007.html
- http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-07-11-1
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1049.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1050.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1061.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1062.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1063.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54071
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54104
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54163
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54165
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6150
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2723
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1905-1
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65236
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983689
Related Security Bulletins
- Buffer overflow in PHP
- Buffer overflow in php (Alpine package)
- SUSE Linux update for PHP5
- SUSE Linux update for PHP5
- SUSE Linux update for PHP5
- SUSE Linux update for PHP5
- SUSE Linux update for PHP5
- Amazon Linux AMI update for php54
- Amazon Linux AMI update for php
- Slackware Linux update for php
- Gentoo update for PHP