CVE-2007-4887

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The dl function in PHP 5.2.4 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the library parameter. NOTE: there are limited usage scenarios under which this would be a vulnerability.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.2.4

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01345501
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
http://secunia.com/advisories/27659
http://secunia.com/advisories/28750
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/30040
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3133
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.5

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