CVE-2010-4698

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the GD extension in PHP before 5.2.15 and 5.3.x before 5.3.4 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large number of anti-aliasing steps in an argument to the imagepstext function.

Affected products

PHP: 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.10 (+8)

References

http://bugs.php.net/53492
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/180
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45338
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11939
http://bugs.php.net/53492
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Dec/180
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45338
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11939

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