CVE-2008-1384

Summary

CVECVE-2008-1384
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-03-27 17:44:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in PHP 5.2.5 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact via a printf format parameter with a large width specifier, related to the php_sprintf_appendstring function in formatted_print.c and probably other functions for formatted strings (aka *printf functions).

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-189 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Php Php All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
rPath update for php - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
PHP 5 'php_sprintf_appendstring()' Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityReason - PHP 5.2.5 and prior : *printf() functions Integer Overflow ( Research Advisory ) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com Exploit
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Advisories | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Advisories:rPSA-2008-0178 - rPath Wiki af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wiki.rpath.com
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[#RPL-2503] php 5.2.6 is out CVE-2008-0599 CVE-2008-0674 CVE-2008-2050 CVE-2008-2051 CVE-2008-1384 - rPath Issue Tracking System af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 issues.rpath.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/NEWS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 cvs.php.net
PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1572-1 php5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Debian update for php5 - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Gentoo update for php - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
USN-628-1: PHP vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:014 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2008-03-28Mark J CoxRed Hat do not consider this to be a security vulnerability: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1384

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