Resource Exhaustion Affecting php package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
50.03% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-PHP-9891241
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed1 Jan 2017

Introduced: 1 Jan 2017

CVE-2017-11142  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (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.

In PHP before 5.6.31, 7.x before 7.0.17, and 7.1.x before 7.1.3, remote attackers could cause a CPU consumption denial of service attack by injecting long form variables, related to main/php_variables.c.