National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-4698

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in the GD extension in PHP before 5.2.15 and 5.3.x before 5.3.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large number of anti-aliasing steps in an argument to the imagepstext function.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 45338

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45338

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

Hyperlink:http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20101210 PHP 5.3.3 GD extension imagepstext stack buffer overflow

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/180

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11939

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11939

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.php.net/53492

Hyperlink:http://bugs.php.net/53492

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11939

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11939