SUSE-SU-2012:0411Vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html CVE-2012-0789
PHP 5.3.8 - Remote Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2012-0789 has a selected CVSS score of 5.0; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
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.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBPHP 5.3.8 - Remote Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby anonymousNot analyzed1 file
References
7openSUSE-SU-2012:0426Vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html 48668Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/48668 php.netConfirmation
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php bugs.php.netConfirmation
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502 bugzilla.redhat.comConfirmation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0789