VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1917

medium
Published 2010-05-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (PHP crash) via a crafted first argument to the fnmatch function, as demonstrated using a long string.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp5.2.0
php phpphp5.2.1
php phpphp5.2.2
php phpphp5.2.3
php phpphp5.2.4
php phpphp5.2.5
php phpphp5.2.6
php phpphp5.2.8
php phpphp5.2.9
php phpphp5.2.10
php phpphp5.2.11
php phpphp5.2.12
php phpphp5.2.13
php phpphp5.3.0
php phpphp5.3.1
php phpphp5.3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.