CVE-2014-3597

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-07-30
CWE:
CWE-125
Bugzilla:
1132589: CVE-2014-3597 php: multiple buffer over-reads in php_parserr
Multiple buffer over-read flaws were found in the php_parserr() function of PHP. A malicious DNS server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash a PHP application that used the dns_get_record() function to perform a DNS query.

Find out more about CVE-2014-3597 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of php as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 2.6
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
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 7 (php) RHSA-2014:1327 2014-09-30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (php53) RHSA-2014:1326 2014-09-30
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (php55-php) RHSA-2014:1766 2014-10-30
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (php54-php) RHSA-2014:1765 2014-10-30
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (php54-php) RHSA-2014:1765 2014-10-30
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (php55-php) RHSA-2014:1766 2014-10-30
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (php) RHSA-2014:1326 2014-09-30

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php Not affected

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by David Kutálek of Red Hat BaseOS QE.

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