Memory Leak Affecting php package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.97% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PHP-9849421
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed11 Jan 2012

Introduced: 11 Jan 2012

CVE-2012-0789  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 php.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php package and not the php package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

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