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CVE-2010-4657

Publication date 13 November 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

PHP5 before 5.4.4 allows passing invalid utf-8 strings via the xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This results in memory leak into the resulting output.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
15.10 wily
Not affected
15.04 vivid
Not affected
14.10 utopic
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
13.10 saucy
Not affected
13.04 raring
Not affected
12.10 quantal
Not affected
12.04 LTS precise Ignored
11.10 oneiric Ignored
11.04 natty Ignored
10.10 maverick Ignored
10.04 LTS lucid Ignored
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored

Notes

jdstrand

per Debian, This was initially reported to be a bug in libxml2, but it later showed that PHP

mdeslaur

can't reproduce on quantal+ The reproducer only displays garbage if the suhosin patch is applied, which is why it doesn't appear to work on quantal+ Need to check if libxml2 still walks past the end of the string if the suhosin patch isn't applied. we will not be fixing this issue

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 High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N