CVE-2010-3710

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-10-25 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the filter_var function in PHP 5.2.x through 5.2.14 and 5.3.x through 5.3.3, when FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL mode is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and application crash) via a long e-mail address string.

Affected products

PHP: 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5 (+13)

References

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52929
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2011/Mar/msg00006.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052836.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052845.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/42812
http://secunia.com/advisories/43189
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4581
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:218
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.php.net/archive/2010.php#id2010-12-10-1

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