CVE-2007-3998

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CVE-2007-3998

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CVE-2007-3998 at MITRE

Description

The wordwrap function in PHP 4 before 4.4.8, and PHP 5 before 5.2.4, does not properly use the breakcharlen variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash, or infinite loop) via certain arguments, as demonstrated by a 'chr(0), 0, ""' argument set.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 307272 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2008:004, published Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 15:46:57 2013
CVE page last modified: Sun Sep 22 00:10:32 2024