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CVE-2012-0789

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2012-09-19 php5 -- Denial of Service in php_date_parse_tzfile()

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2012-0789
Phase Assigned(20120119)

Description

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.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
CONFIRM https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53502
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783609
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0426
SECUNIA 48668