CVE-2007-4887 Information

Description

The dl function in PHP 5.2.4 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the library parameter. NOTE: there are limited usage scenarios under which this would be a vulnerability.

Reference

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01345501 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27102 http://secunia.com/advisories/27659 http://secunia.com/advisories/28750 http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 http://secunia.com/advisories/30040 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3133 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php5.2.5 http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_5.php http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478985/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478988/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491693/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26403 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3825 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0398 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1943 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A5767