CVE-2012-0789

Publication date 14 February 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
	11.10 oneiric	Ignored
	11.04 natty	Ignored
	10.10 maverick	Ignored end of life
	10.04 LTS lucid	Ignored
	8.04 LTS hardy	Ignored

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Notes

sbeattie

patch is invasive and changes some interfaces, likely to introduce regressions

mdeslaur

too intrusive to fix, marking as "ignored"

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=320481

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/20/3
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-0789