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CVE-2012-0789

Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memo

Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.07535
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  • EPSS percentile: top 8% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
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Affected Products & Versions

2
php<= 5.3.8
phpall versions

Public Exploits & PoCs

3

Scoring & Timeline

5
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD14 Feb 2012 · 03:55 PM

Vendor Advisories

3
rhsaRHSA-2012:1047Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2012:1046Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2012:1045Moderate
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