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CVE-2012-0781 (GCVE-0-2012-0781)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-01-18 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:38
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/18370/ exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://secunia.com/advisories/48668 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://cxsecurity.com/research/103 x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2012-01-14 00:00
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