In PHP before 5.6.31, 7.x before 7.0.17, and 7.1.x before 7.1.3, remote attackers could cause a CPU consumption denial of service attack by injecting long form variables, related to main/php_variables.c.
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a15bffd105ac28fd0dd9b596632dbf035238fda3
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/0f8cf3b8497dc45c010c44ed9e96518e11e19fc3