CVE-2010-4645
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-189
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
strtod.c, as used in the zend_strtod function in PHP 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 5.3 before 5.3.5, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain floating-point value in scientific notation, which is not properly handled in x87 FPU registers, as demonstrated using 2.2250738585072011e-308.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)15%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/28/14/29/PDF/floating-point-article.pdf
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053333.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053355.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42812
- http://bugs.php.net/53632Exploit