php -- readfile() DoS vulnerability

The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. VID 07f3fe15-a9de-11d9-a788-0001020eed82 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from vuxml or freebsd advisories Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc...

CVE-2005-0596

Consolidated details from connected sources confirm CVE-2005-0596 affects PHP 4’s readfile() function. The underlying issue is that reading a file whose size is a multiple of the system page size can crash the httpd/daemon, yielding a denial-of-service condition. The vulnerability is described as...