Vulnerability CVE-2010-4657
Published: 2019-11-13   Modified: 2019-11-14

Description:
PHP5 before 5.4.4 allows passing invalid utf-8 strings via the xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This results in memory leak into the resulting output.

Type:

CWE-772

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Redhat -> Enterprise linux 
PHP -> PHP 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2010-4657
https://bugs.launchpad.net/php/%2Bbug/655442
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4657
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4657
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