Description
The Zend Engine in PHP before 5.4.16 RC1, and 5.5.0 before RC2, does not properly determine whether a parser error occurred, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a crafted function definition, as demonstrated by an attack within a shared web-hosting environment. NOTE: the vendor's http://php.net/security-note.php page says "for critical security situations you should be using OS-level security by running multiple web servers each as their own user id.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64660
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.4.16RC1/NEWS
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0RC2/NEWS
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/fb58e69a84f4fde603a630d2c9df2fa3be16d846Exploit, Patch
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64660
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.4.16RC1/NEWS
- https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/php-5.5.0RC2/NEWS
- https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/fb58e69a84f4fde603a630d2c9df2fa3be16d846Exploit, Patch
Timeline
- Published
- May 31, 2013
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified