CVE-2007-1285

Publication date 6 March 2007

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

The Zend Engine in PHP 4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and PHP crash) via deeply nested arrays, which trigger deep recursion in the variable destruction routines.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 7.04 feisty Ignored
6.10 edgy Ignored
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored

Notes

kees

crash only, no code execution. input needs to be validated by application.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-549-1
    • PHP vulnerabilities
    • 29 November 2007

Other references