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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2010-4657

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2010-4657

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/13/2019
Created
11/30/2019
Added
11/29/2019
Modified
07/21/2021

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.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-5_4_4

References

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