CVE-2013-3735
Description
The Zend Engine in PHP before 5.4.16 RC1, and 5.5.0 before RC2, does not properly determine whether a parser error occurred, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted function definition, as demonstrated by an attack within a shared web-hosting environment. NOTE: the vendor's http://php.net/security-note.php page says "for critical security situations you should be using OS-level security by running multiple web servers each as their own user id.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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References
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64660
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.4.16RC1/NEWS
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0RC2/NEWS
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/fb58e69a84f4fde603a630d2c9df2fa3be16d846
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64660
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.4.16RC1/NEWS
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0RC2/NEWS
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/fb58e69a84f4fde603a630d2c9df2fa3be16d846
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.