CVE-2007-4784

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The setlocale function in PHP before 5.2.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the locale parameter. NOTE: this might not be a vulnerability in most web server environments that support multiple threads, unless this issue can be demonstrated for code execution.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.2.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
http://osvdb.org/38687
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3114
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/478627/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36458
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
http://osvdb.org/38687
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658

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