CVE-2007-4784 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The setlocale function in PHP before 5.2.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the locale parameter. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability in most web server environments that support multiple threads, unless this issue can be demonstrated for code execution.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01658.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Php	Php

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
http://osvdb.org/38687
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3114
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478627/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36458
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4784

History

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4784

Thu, 22 May 2025 04:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-4784 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-4784

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-09-10T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:08:33.719Z

Reserved: 2007-09-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-4784

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2007-09-10T21:17:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2007-4784

Redhat

Severity :

Publid Date: 2007-09-04T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-4784 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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