Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting php package, versions [,5.1.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
36.98% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335436
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Mar 2006
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Mar 2006

CVE-2006-1490  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.1.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). PHP before 5.1.3-RC1 might allow remote attackers to obtain portions of memory via crafted binary data sent to a script that processes user input in the html_entity_decode function and sends the encoded results back to the client, aka a "binary safety" issue. NOTE: this issue has been referred to as a "memory leak," but it is an information leak that discloses memory contents.

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