CVE-2013-4113

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Summary

CVECVE-2013-4113
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-07-13 13:10:01 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
Descriptionext/xml/xml.c in PHP before 5.3.27 does not properly consider parsing depth, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted document that is processed by the xml_parse_into_struct function.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.8 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-787 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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
Security Advisory SA54165 - Red Hat update for php - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:1315-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
PHP: News Archive - 2013 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 php.net Vendor Advisory
About the security content of OS X Mavericks v10.9.2 and Security Update 2014-001 - Apple Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 support.apple.com Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
PHP :: Sec Bug #65236 :: heap corruption in xml parser af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.php.net Vendor Advisory
208.43.231.11 Git - php-src.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.php.net
USN-1905-1: PHP vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2723-1 php5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
Bug 983689 – CVE-2013-4113 php: xml_parse_into_struct buffer overflow when parsing deeply nested XML af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA54163 - Debian update for php5 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:1285-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2013:1316-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
PHP: PHP 5 ChangeLog af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 php.net Vendor Advisory
208.43.231.11 Git - php-src.git/commit MITRE git.php.net
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