CVE-2010-0397

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-03-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The xmlrpc extension in PHP 5.3.1 does not properly handle a missing methodName element in the first argument to the xmlrpc_decode_request function, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted argument.

Affected products

PHP: 5.3.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573573
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Aug/msg00003.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-05/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42410
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4312
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:068
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/03/12/5
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0919.html

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