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.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Php | Php | * | 5.3.8 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.0 (including) | 5.0.0 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.0-beta1 (including) | 5.0.0-beta1 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.0-beta2 (including) | 5.0.0-beta2 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.0-beta3 (including) | 5.0.0-beta3 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.0-beta4 (including) | 5.0.0-beta4 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.0-rc1 (including) | 5.0.0-rc1 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.0-rc2 (including) | 5.0.0-rc2 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.0-rc3 (including) | 5.0.0-rc3 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.1 (including) | 5.0.1 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.2 (including) | 5.0.2 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.3 (including) | 5.0.3 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.4 (including) | 5.0.4 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.0.5 (including) | 5.0.5 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.1.1 (including) | 5.1.1 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.1.2 (including) | 5.1.2 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.1.3 (including) | 5.1.3 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.1.4 (including) | 5.1.4 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.1.5 (including) | 5.1.5 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.1.6 (including) | 5.1.6 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.0 (including) | 5.2.0 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.1 (including) | 5.2.1 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.2 (including) | 5.2.2 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.3 (including) | 5.2.3 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.4 (including) | 5.2.4 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.5 (including) | 5.2.5 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.6 (including) | 5.2.6 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.7 (including) | 5.2.7 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.8 (including) | 5.2.8 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.9 (including) | 5.2.9 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.10 (including) | 5.2.10 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.11 (including) | 5.2.11 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.12 (including) | 5.2.12 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.14 (including) | 5.2.14 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.15 (including) | 5.2.15 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.16 (including) | 5.2.16 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.2.17 (including) | 5.2.17 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.3.0 (including) | 5.3.0 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.3.1 (including) | 5.3.1 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.3.2 (including) | 5.3.2 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.3.3 (including) | 5.3.3 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.3.4 (including) | 5.3.4 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.3.5 (including) | 5.3.5 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.3.6 (including) | 5.3.6 (including) |
| Php | Php | 5.3.7 (including) | 5.3.7 (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | RedHat | php-0:5.1.6-39.el5_8 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | RedHat | php53-0:5.3.3-13.el5_8 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | RedHat | php-0:5.3.3-14.el6_3 | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | hardy | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | lucid | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | maverick | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | natty | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | oneiric | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609