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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-2872 Detail

Current Description

Multiple integer overflows in the chunk_split function in PHP 5 before 5.2.3 and PHP 4 before 4.4.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via the (1) chunks, (2) srclen, and (3) chunklen arguments.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (08/02/2007)

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2007-2872 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having moderate security impact, a future update may address this flaw.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01178795 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01345501 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-07/msg00006.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://osvdb.org/36083 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0889.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25456 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25535 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26048 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26231 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26838 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26871 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26895 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26930 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26967 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27037 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27110 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27351 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27377 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27545 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27864 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28318 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28750 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28936 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30040 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.482863 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.335136 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-449.htm CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:187 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.020.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-4.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.php.net/releases/4_4_8.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_3.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0888.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0890.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0891.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.sec-consult.com/291.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470244/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491693/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24261 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018186 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-549-2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2061 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3386 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0059 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0398 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39398 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1693 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1702 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9424 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://usn.ubuntu.com/549-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00354.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00397.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

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-2007-2872
NVD Published Date:
06/04/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.