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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-3998 Detail

Description

The wordwrap function in PHP 4 before 4.4.8, and PHP 5 before 5.2.4, does not properly use the breakcharlen variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash, or infinite loop) via certain arguments, as demonstrated by a 'chr(0), 0, ""' argument set.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/05/2007)

This issue did not affect the versions of PHP as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0889.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26642 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26822 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26838 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26871 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26895 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26930 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/26967 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27377 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27545 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/27864 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28249 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/30288 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secweb.se/en/advisories/php-wordwrap-vulnerability/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-449.htm CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1444 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1578 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:187 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.4 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_4.php CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0890.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0891.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/ CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-549-2 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3023 CVE, MITRE Permissions Required  Third Party Advisory 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1693 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1702 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10603 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://usn.ubuntu.com/549-1/ CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00354.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-3998
NVD Published Date:
09/04/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE