CVE-2012-0781

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-01-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The tidy_diagnose function in PHP 5.3.8 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted input to an application that attempts to perform Tidy::diagnose operations on invalid objects, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4153.

Affected products

PHP: 5.3.8

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0092.html
http://cxsecurity.com/research/103
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18370/
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-01/0092.html
http://cxsecurity.com/research/103
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18370/

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