PHP 5.x < 5.4.4 Memory Leak Vulnerability
🗓️ 22 Nov 2021 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The vulnerability of the XMLWriter component in the PHP programming language interpreter allows attackers to disclose protected information. | 27 Apr 202200:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2010-4657 | 20 Nov 201916:31 | – | circl | |
| CVE-2010-4657 | 13 Nov 201920:06 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2010-4657 | 13 Nov 201920:06 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2010-4622 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2010-4657 | 13 Nov 201921:15 | – | nvd | |
| Memory corruption | 13 Nov 201921:15 | – | prion | |
| RHEL 5 : php (Unpatched Vulnerability) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| RHEL 6 : php (Unpatched Vulnerability) | 3 Jun 202400:00 | – | nessus | |
| Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2010-4657 | 3 Mar 202500:00 | – | nessus |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| bugzilla | www.bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:php:php";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.117788");
script_version("2025-09-24T05:39:03+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-24 05:39:03 +0000 (Wed, 24 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2021-11-22 14:38:04 +0000 (Mon, 22 Nov 2021)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-11-20 13:45:00 +0000 (Wed, 20 Nov 2019)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2010-4657");
# nb: Unclear affected / fixed versions so a low QoD was chosen.
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("PHP 5.x < 5.4.4 Memory Leak Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2021 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_php_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("php/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"PHP is prone to a memory leak vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"PHP allows passing invalid utf-8 strings via the
xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This results in memory leak into
the resulting output.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"PHP versions 5.x prior to 5.4.4.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 5.4.4 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4657");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range_exclusive(version: version, test_version_lo: "5.0", test_version_up: "5.4.4")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.4.4", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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