PHP 5.2.x < 5.2.17 / 5.3.x < 5.3.5 String To Double Conversion DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5740

Synopsis

The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

According to its banner the version of PHP installed on the remote host is either 5.2 earlier than 5.2.17 or 5.3 earlier than 5.3.5. Such versions may experience a crash while performing string to double conversion for certain numeric values. Only x86 32-bit PHP processes are known to be affected by this issue regardless of whether the system running PHP is 32-bit or 64-bit.

Solution

Upgrade to PHP version 5.2.17/5.3.5 or later.

See Also

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53632

http://www.php.net/distributions/test_bug53632.txt

http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_17.php

http://www.php.net/releases/5_3_5.php

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5740

Family: Web Servers

Published: 1/7/2011

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 51439

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:X/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:php:php

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/30/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4645

BID: 45668