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CVE Reference: CVE-2007-3998

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2007-3998

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-549-1
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-549-2

TRUSTIX
  http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA27102
  Secunia Advisory: SA27545
  Secunia Advisory: SA26895
  Secunia Advisory: SA26967
  Secunia Advisory: SA27377
  Secunia Advisory: SA26822
  Secunia Advisory: SA26838
  Secunia Advisory: SA26930
  Secunia Advisory: SA26871
  Secunia Advisory: SA26642
  Secunia Advisory: SA27864
  Secunia Advisory: SA28249
  Secunia Advisory: SA28658
  Secunia Advisory: SA30288

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0891.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0889.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0890.html

MISC
  http://secweb.se/en/advisories/php-wordwrap-vulnerability/

MANDRIVA
  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:187

GENTOO
  http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml

FEDORA

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1444
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1578

CONFIRM
  http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-449.htm
  http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_4.php
  http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.4


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