CVE-2010-4657

Summary

CVECVE-2010-4657
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-13 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-11-20 13:45:00 UTC
DescriptionPHP5 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-772

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Php Php All All All All
Application Php Php All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Bug #655442 “memory content leak when using xmlTextWriterWriteAt...” : Bugs : php MISC bugs.launchpad.net Third Party Advisory
CVE-2010-4657 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE-2010-4657 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
673101 – (CVE-2010-4657) CVE-2010-4657 php: XMLWriter information leak MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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