CVE-2010-4657

high

Description

PHP5 before 5.4.4 allows passing invalid utf-8 strings via the xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This results in memory leak into the resulting output.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4657

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4657

https://bugs.launchpad.net/php/%2Bbug/655442

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4657

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-13

Updated: 2019-11-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High