Out-of-Bounds Affecting php package, versions [,5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
13.27% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335482
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Jun 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Jun 2008

CVE-2008-2829  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds php_imap.c in PHP 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 4.x, and other versions, uses obsolete API calls that allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long IMAP request, which triggers an "rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow" error message, related to the rfc822_write_address function.

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