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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2007-4659 json

The zend_alter_ini_entry function in PHP before 5.2.4 does not properly handle an interruption to the flow of execution triggered by a memo…

published 2007-09-04 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-4641

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The zend_alter_ini_entry function in PHP before 5.2.4 does not properly handle an interruption to the flow of execution triggered by a memory_limit violation, which has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Patch / fix

  • php RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.3-3.el5s2
  • php-gd RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.3-3.el5s2
  • php-cli RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.3-3.el5s2
  • php-dba RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.3-3.el5s2
  • php-pdo RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.3-3.el5s2
  • php-xml RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.3-3.el5s2
  • php-imap RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.3-3.el5s2
  • php-ldap RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.3-3.el5s2

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:0917

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2007-4659 updated

php zend_alter_ini_entry() memory_limit interruption

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

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References

Sources

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