cve-2007-4887
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-09-14 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:08
Severity ?
Summary
The dl function in PHP 5.2.4 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the library parameter. NOTE: there are limited usage scenarios under which this would be a vulnerability.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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