National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2002-0717
Orirignal release date: 2002-07-26
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

    PHP 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an HTTP POST request with certain arguments in a multipart/form-data form, which generates an error condition that is not properly handled and causes improper memory to be freed.

Impact

    CVSS Severity: 8 (High)
    Range: remote
    Authentication: design
    Impact Type: avail,sec_prot other="1"

Reference to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Vulnerable Software and Vendor

    PHP (PHP)

Technical Details

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2002-0717