CVE-2012-2329

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 61.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in the apache_request_headers function in sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in PHP 5.4.x before 5.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string in the header of an HTTP request.

Affected products

PHP: 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.4.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/49014
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.4.3
http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-05-08-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53455
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61807
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820000
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75545
https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03839862
http://secunia.com/advisories/49014
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.4.3
http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-05-08-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53455

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