CVE-2009-4017

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2009-11-20
Bugzilla:
540459: CVE-2009-4017 PHP: resource exhaustion attack via upload requests with lots of files

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

PHP before 5.2.12 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1 does not restrict the number of temporary files created when handling a multipart/form-data POST request, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion), and makes it easier for remote attackers to exploit local file inclusion vulnerabilities, via multiple requests, related to lack of support for the max_file_uploads directive.

Find out more about CVE-2009-4017 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5
Base Metrics 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

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (php) RHSA-2010:0040 2010-01-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (php) RHSA-2010:0040 2010-01-13
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (php) RHSA-2010:0040 2010-01-13

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