Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting php package, versions [,4.3.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.52% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335574
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Apr 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Apr 2005

CVE-2005-1043  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 4.3.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) exif.c in PHP before 4.3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an EXIF header with a large IFD nesting level, which causes significant stack recursion.

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