Bug 285901 (CVE-2007-4784)

Summary:	CVE-2007-4784 php crash in setlocale() function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jorton
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OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4784
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Description Tomas Hoger 2007-09-11 13:17:33 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-4784 to the following vulnerability:

The setlocale function in PHP before 5.2.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the locale parameter.  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.

References:

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/478627/100/0/threaded

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2007-09-12 19:06:26 UTC

We do not consider this to be a security issue. For more information please see
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1
and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2007-11-29 14:44:08 UTC

This issue was addressed in upstream PHP 5.2.5, patch:

http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/string.c?r1=1.445.2.14.2.67&r2=1.445.2.14.2.68