CVE-2010-4657

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

PHP5 before 5.4.4 allows passing invalid utf-8 strings via the xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This results in memory leak into the resulting output.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-772

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
php5	php5	before 5.4.4

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4657Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/php/%2Bbug/655442Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4657Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4657Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4657Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/php/%2Bbug/655442Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4657Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4657Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 13, 2019
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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