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CVE-2007-1285

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 18.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

The Zend Engine in PHP 4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and PHP crash) via deeply nested arrays, which trigger deep recursion in the variable destruction routines.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 7.10
• Novell Suse Linux: 10.0, 10.1
• PHP: from 4.0.0 before 4.4.7; from 5.0.0 before 5.2.2 — fixed in 4.4.7, 5.2.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0, 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 8, 10-sp1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 4.4.7, 5.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-07/msg00006.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0154.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0155.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0163.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24909
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24910
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24924
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24941
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24945
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25445
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26048
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26642

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