Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in PHP 5.3.8 Tidy_diagnose Function

Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in PHP 5.3.8 Tidy_diagnose Function

CVE-2012-0781 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Learn more about our Web Application Penetration Testing UK.