Description

ext/xml/xml.c in PHP before 5.3.27 does not properly consider parsing depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document that is processed by the xml_parse_into_struct function.

References

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=7d163e8a0880ae8af2dd869071393e5dc07ef271

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-07/msg00034.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00006.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-08/msg00007.html

http://php.net/archive/2013.php#id2013-07-11-1

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1049.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1050.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1061.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1062.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1063.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/54071

http://secunia.com/advisories/54104

http://secunia.com/advisories/54163

http://secunia.com/advisories/54165

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6150

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2723

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1905-1

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=65236

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=983689

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2