CVE-2010-1917

Publication date 12 May 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Stack consumption vulnerability in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (PHP crash) via a crafted first argument to the fnmatch function, as demonstrated using a long string.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.5
	9.10 karmic	Fixed 5.2.10.dfsg.1-2ubuntu6.5
	9.04 jaunty	Fixed 5.2.6.dfsg.1-3ubuntu4.6
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.12
	6.06 LTS dapper	Fixed 5.1.2-1ubuntu3.19

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Notes

mdeslaur

This is MOPS-2010-021

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=298881

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-989-1
PHP vulnerabilities
20 September 2010

Other references

http://www.php-security.org/2010/05/11/mops-2010-021-php-fnmatch-stack-exhaustion-vulnerability/index.html
http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-2089-1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1917