CVE catalog
CVE-2007-3998
php5 several issues
- Severity
- Unknown
- Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 2.99% · Oct 25, 2026
The wordwrap function in PHP 4 before 4.4.8, and PHP 5 before 5.2.4, does not properly use the breakcharlen variable, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and application crash, or infinite loop) via certain arguments, as demonstrated by a 'chr(0), 0, ""' argument set. php floating point exception inside wordwrap This issue did not affect the versions of PHP as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch3 | vulnerable |
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch4 | vulnerable |
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch5~pu1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch6 | vulnerable |
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch7 | vulnerable |
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch8 | vulnerable |
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch9~bpo31+1 | vulnerable |
| Debian | php5 | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch9 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | php5 | deb | 4.0 | 5.2.0-8+etch9 | Not reported | DSA-1444-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
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