strtod.c, as used in the zend_strtod function in PHP 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 5.3 before 5.3.5, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain floating-point value in scientific notation, which is not properly handled in x87 FPU registers, as demonstrated using 2.2250738585072011e-308.
References
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http://bugs.php.net/53632 cve-icon cve-icon
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/28/14/29/PDF/floating-point-article.pdf cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053333.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053355.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133226187115472&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42812 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/42843 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43051 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/43189 cve-icon cve-icon
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2011&m=slackware-security.484686 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002 cve-icon cve-icon
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_2/Zend/zend_strtod.c?r1=266327&r2=307095&pathrev=307095 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.exploringbinary.com/php-hangs-on-numeric-value-2-2250738585072011e-308/ cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/05/2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/05/8 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/01/06/5 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/05/14/3 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0195.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0196.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45668 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1042-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0060 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0066 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0077 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0198 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/64470 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4645 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-4645 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2011-01-11T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T03:51:17.956Z

Reserved: 2011-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2010-4645

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2011-01-11T03:00:04.280

Modified: 2023-05-15T00:15:42.440

Link: CVE-2010-4645

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2010-12-30T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2010-4645 - Bugzilla