PHP before 5.2.12 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1 does not restrict the number of temporary files created when handling a multipart/form-data POST request, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion), and makes it easier for remote attackers to exploit local file inclusion vulnerabilities, via multiple requests, related to lack of support for the max_file_uploads directive.
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http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_12.php cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.php.net/releases/5_3_1.php cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507982/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3593 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54455 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4017 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10483 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6667 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4017 cve-icon
History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:45:50.952Z

Reserved: 2009-11-20T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-4017

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2009-11-24T00:30:00.500

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2009-4017

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2009-11-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-4017 - Bugzilla