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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-1384 Detail

Description

Integer overflow in PHP 5.2.5 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly have unspecified other impact via a printf format parameter with a large width specifier, related to the php_sprintf_appendstring function in formatted_print.c and probably other functions for formatted strings (aka *printf functions).


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/28/2008)

Red Hat do not consider this to be a security vulnerability: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2008-1384

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/NEWS?revision=1.2027.2.547.2.1120&view=markup CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30158 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30345 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30411 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30967 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/31200 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32746 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/52 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176 CVE, MITRE
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0178 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1572 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:022 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:023 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489962/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492535/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492671/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28392 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41386 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2503 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-189 Numeric Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-1384
NVD Published Date:
03/27/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE