CVE-2014-3597

medium
Published 2014-08-23 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the php_parserr function in ext/standard/dns.c in PHP before 5.4.32 and 5.5.x before 5.5.16 allow remote DNS servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS record, related to the dns_get_record function and the dn_expand function. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-4049.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67717

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.4.31"}
php phpphp5.4.0
php phpphp5.4.1
php phpphp5.4.2
php phpphp5.4.3
php phpphp5.4.4
php phpphp5.4.5
php phpphp5.4.6
php phpphp5.4.7
php phpphp5.4.8
php phpphp5.4.9
php phpphp5.4.10
php phpphp5.4.11
php phpphp5.4.12
php phpphp5.4.13
php phpphp5.4.14
php phpphp5.4.15
php phpphp5.4.16
php phpphp5.4.17
php phpphp5.4.18
php phpphp5.4.19
php phpphp5.4.20
php phpphp5.4.21
php phpphp5.4.22
php phpphp5.4.23
php phpphp5.4.24
php phpphp5.4.25
php phpphp5.4.26
php phpphp5.4.27
php phpphp5.4.28
php phpphp5.4.29
php phpphp5.4.30
php phpphp5.5.0
php phpphp5.5.1
php phpphp5.5.2
php phpphp5.5.3
php phpphp5.5.4
php phpphp5.5.5
php phpphp5.5.6
php phpphp5.5.7
php phpphp5.5.8
php phpphp5.5.9
php phpphp5.5.10
php phpphp5.5.11
php phpphp5.5.12
php phpphp5.5.13
php phpphp5.5.14
php phpphp5.5.15

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.