CVE-2010-4645: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 15.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

strtod.c, as used in the zend_strtod function in PHP 5.2 before 5.2.17 and 5.3 before 5.3.5, and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain floating-point value in scientific notation, which is not properly handled in x87 FPU registers, as demonstrated using 2.2250738585072011e-308.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.2.1 only; version 5.2.2 only; version 5.2.3 only; version 5.2.4 only; version 5.2.5 only; …

Published 2011-01-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.