CVE-2012-0789

PHP 5.3.8 - Remote Denial of Service

Severity Score

5.0

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.

Pérdida de memoria en la funcionalidad timezona en PHP antes de v5.3.9, permite a atacantes remotos provocar una denegación de servicio (consumo de memoria) lanzando múltiples llamadas a la función strtotime, que no son manejadas apropiadamente por la caché php_date_parse_tzfile.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2011-12-18 First Exploit
2012-01-19 CVE Reserved
2012-02-14 CVE Published
2024-03-04 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-399: Resource Management Errors
CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CAPEC

References (8)

URL	Tag	Source
http://secunia.com/advisories/48668	Third Party Advisory
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9	X_refsource_confirm

URL	Date	SRC
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36789	2011-12-18
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502	2024-08-06
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html	2018-01-09
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html	2018-01-09
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-0789	2012-06-27

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				<= 5.3.8 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version " <= 5.3.8"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.0"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.0"		beta1		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.0"		beta2		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.0"		beta3		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.0"		beta4		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.0"		rc1		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.0"		rc2		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.0"		rc3		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.1 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.1"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.2 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.2"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.3 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.3"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.4 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.4"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.0.5 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.0.5"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.1.1 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.1.1"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.1.2 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.1.2"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.1.3 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.1.3"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.1.4 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.1.4"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.1.5 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.1.5"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.1.6 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.1.6"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.0"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.1 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.1"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.2 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.2"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.3 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.3"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.4 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.4"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.5 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.5"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.6 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.6"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.7 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.7"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.8 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.8"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.9 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.9"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.10 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.10"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.11 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.11"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.12 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.12"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.14 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.14"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.15 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.15"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.16 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.16"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.2.17 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.2.17"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.3.0 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.3.0"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.3.1 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.3.1"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.3.2 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.3.2"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.3.3 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.3.3"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.3.4 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.3.4"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.3.5 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.3.5"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.3.6 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.3.6"		-		Affected
Php Search vendor "Php"		Php Search vendor "Php" for product "Php"				5.3.7 Search vendor "Php" for product "Php" and version "5.3.7"		-		Affected