CVE-2010-4657Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Php5

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.44%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 13
Latest updateApr 21

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5php5/php5before 5.4.4
NVDphp/php5.0.05.4.4

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, Enterprise Linux 5.0, 6.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-mx27-jhrp-2gfm: PHP5 before 52022-04-21
CVEList
CVE-2010-4657: PHP5 before 52019-11-13

📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
php: XMLWriter information leak2010-10-06

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2010-4657 php: XMLWriter information leak2011-01-27