Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-7205 - Denial-Of-Service vulnerability in PHP Group PHP 4.4.2/5.1.2
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
The array_fill function in ext/standard/array.c in PHP 4.4.2 and 5.1.2 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large num value.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
Nessus
| NASL family | CGI abuses |
| NASL id | PHP_5_2_0.NASL |
| description | According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.x installed on the remote host is older than 5.2. Such versions may be affected by several buffer overflows. To exploit these issues, an attacker would need the ability to upload an arbitrary PHP script on the remote server or to manipulate several variables processed by some PHP functions such as |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 31649 |
| published | 2008-03-25 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/31649 |
| title | PHP 5.x < 5.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities |
Statements
| contributor | Mark J Cox |
| lastmodified | 2007-05-29 |
| organization | Red Hat |
| statement | The memory_limit configuration option is used to constrain the amount of memory which a script can consume during execution. If this setting is disabled (or set unreasonably high), it is expected behaviour that scripts will be able to consume large amounts of memory during script execution. The memory_limit setting is enabled by default in all versions of PHP distributed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Application Stack. |