CVE-2012-0789

high

Description

Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.

References

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9

http://secunia.com/advisories/48668

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-02-14

Updated: 2018-01-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High