CVE-2007-3998

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 None
Description
The wordwrap function in PHP 4 before 4.4.8, and PHP 5 before 5.2.4, does not properly use the breakcharlen variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash, or infinite loop) via certain arguments, as demonstrated by a 'chr(0), 0, ""' argument set.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2007-3998
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2007-09-04T18:17:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-10-26T13:59:57
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.0.0 4.4.8
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 5.0.0 5.2.4
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://secweb.se/en/advisories/php-wordwrap-vulnerability/ Third Party Advisory
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.4 Vendor Advisory
http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_4.php Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/26642 Third Party Advisory
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1702 Broken Link
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1693 Broken Link
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-449.htm Third Party Advisory
https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043 Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00354.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:187 Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0890.html Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0889.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0891.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/ Broken Link
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-549-2 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/26822 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/26838 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/26930 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/26871 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/26895 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/26967 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27377 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27545 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27864 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1444 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28249 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 Third Party Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1578 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30288 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3023 Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10603 Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/549-1/ Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3998
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3998
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:02:50 Added to TrackCVE