CVE-2007-4661 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-4661 at MITRE

Description

The chunk_split function in string.c in PHP 5.2.3 does not properly calculate the needed buffer size due to precision loss when performing integer arithmetic with floating point numbers, which has unknown attack vectors and impact, possibly resulting in a heap-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-2872.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 307272 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:004, published Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:00:47 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:22:23 2023