CVE-2012-0789

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 3
Modified
Published: 14 Feb 2012, 15:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 18:38

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
32/100
CVSS Score
5 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
7.54% LOW
8% probability -0.33%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
3 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

14 Feb 2012, 15:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 18:38
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 7.54%• Percentile: 92%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-399•Resource Management Errors

    Weaknesses in this category are related to improper management of system resources.

Affected Systems

  • Unknown•PHP

    ≤ 5.3.8 | 5.0.0 | 5.0.0:beta1 | 5.0.0:beta2 | 5.0.0:beta3 | 5.0.0:beta4 | 5.0.0:rc1 | 5.0.0:rc2 | 5.0.0:rc3 | 5.0.1 | 5.0.2 | 5.0.3 | 5.0.4 | 5.0.5 | 5.1.1 | 5.1.2 | 5.1.3 | 5.1.4 | 5.1.5 | 5.1.6 | 5.2.0 | 5.2.1 | 5.2.2 | 5.2.3 | 5.2.4 | 5.2.5 | 5.2.6 | 5.2.7 | 5.2.8 | 5.2.9 | 5.2.10 | 5.2.11 | 5.2.12 | 5.2.14 | 5.2.15 | 5.2.16 | 5.2.17 | 5.3.0 | 5.3.1 | 5.3.2 | 5.3.3 | 5.3.4 | 5.3.5 | 5.3.6 | 5.3.7

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