CVE-2012-0789 Information

Description

Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48668 http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php5.3.9 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609