VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2012-0789
Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.
MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 8.26%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (8.26%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 8.26% probability · 95th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- php/php
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609Exploit
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502Exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609Exploit
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.