National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0788
Original release date:02/14/2012
Last revised:06/28/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The PDORow implementation in PHP before 5.3.9 does not properly interact with the session feature, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted application that uses a PDO driver for a fetch and then calls the session_start function, as demonstrated by a crash of the Apache HTTP Server.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783605
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55776
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 48668
External Source: SUSE
Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0426
