CVE-2017-7963

HIGH

PHP < 7.1.4 - Denial of Service via GMP Long String Operations

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP) interfaces for PHP through 7.1.4 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via operations on long strings. NOTE: the vendor disputes this, stating "There is no security issue here, because GMP safely aborts in case of an OOM condition. The only attack vector here is denial of service. However, if you allow attacker-controlled, unbounded allocations you have a DoS vector regardless of GMP's OOM behavior.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=74308

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0167
EPSS Percentile 82.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (1)
php/php < 7.1.4
Published Apr 19, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026