cve-2022-4900
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-11-02 15:01
Modified
2025-02-13 16:34
Severity ?
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS score ?
0.08% (0.21524)
Summary
A vulnerability was found in PHP where setting the environment variable PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS to a large value leads to a heap buffer overflow.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4900Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179880Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0008/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4900Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2179880Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0008/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a php
   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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