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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6039

Original release date:11/20/2007

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

PHP 5.2.5 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in (1) the domain parameter to the dgettext function, the message parameter to the (2) dcgettext or (3) gettext function, the msgid1 parameter to the (4) dngettext or (5) ngettext function, or (6) the classname parameter to the stream_wrapper_register function. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability in most web server environments that support multiple threads, unless this issue can be demonstrated for code execution.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:2.1 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 3.9

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Locally exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (12/06/2007)

Red Hat doesn’t consider this a security issue. The arguments to the functions in question should always be under the control of the script author, rather than untrusted script input, so these issues would not be treated as security-sensitive.

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External Source: XF

Name: php-multiple-gettext-dos(38443)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38443

External Source: XF

Name: php-streamwrapperregister-dos(38442)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38442

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071113 PHP <= 5.2.5 Gettext Lib Multiple Denial of service

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483648/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071113 PHP <= 5.2.5 stream_wrapper_register() denial of service

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483644/100/0/threaded