Memory Leak Affecting php-tidy package, versions <0:5.3.3-14.el6_3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.28% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PHPTIDY-1444672
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • 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?

Upgrade RHEL:6 php-tidy to version 0:5.3.3-14.el6_3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2012:1046.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php-tidy package and not the php-tidy package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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 Scores

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