CVE-2012-0789: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.3.8; version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; …

Published 2012-02-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.