CVE-2014-9705

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 19.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the enchant_broker_request_dict function in ext/enchant/enchant.c in PHP before 5.4.38, 5.5.x before 5.5.22, and 5.6.x before 5.6.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger creation of multiple dictionaries.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.4.37; 5.5.0, 5.5.0-alpha1, 5.5.0-alpha2, 5.5.0-alpha3, 5.5.0-alpha4, 5.5.0-alpha5 (+42)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00002.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/15/6
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1053.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1218.html
http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/enchant/trunk/enchant.c?r1=317600&r2=335803

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