Upstream information

CVE-2007-3998 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 307272 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:


Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 php5 Analysis
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 php5 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 php5 Analysis
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web and Scripting 12 php5 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 php5 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 php5 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 php5 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 php5 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 php5 Analysis
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 php5 Analysis


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 15:46:57 2013
CVE page last modified: Thu Dec 11 15:26:05 2025