Medium 5.0Published Apr 14, 2005

CVE-2005-1043exif.c in PHP before 4.3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an EXIF header with a large IFD nesting level, which causes significant stack recur…

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exif.c in PHP before 4.3.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an EXIF header with a large IFD nesting level, which causes significant stack recursion.

CVSS: 5.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

php php php:php	4.3.0; 4.3.1; 4.3.2; 4.3.3; 4.3.4; 4.3.5; 4.3.6; 4.3.7; and 3 more ranges	NVD
sgi propack sgi:propack	3.0	NVD
conectiva linux conectiva:linux	9.0; 10.0	NVD
apple mac_os_x apple:mac_os_x	10.3.9; 10.4; 10.4.1	NVD
apple mac_os_x_server apple:mac_os_x_server	10.3.9; 10.4; 10.4.1	NVD
peachtree peachtree_linux peachtree:peachtree_linux	release_1	NVD
suse suse_linux suse:suse_linux	1.0; 2.0; 3.0; 4.0; 4.2; 4.3; 4.4; 4.4.1; and 42 more ranges	NVD

References

References

http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/php-src/ext/exif/exif.c?r1=1.118.2.29&r2=1.118.2.30&ty=u	vendor-advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Jun/msg00000.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200504-15.xml	patch, vendor-advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:072
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-406.html	patch, vendor-advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154025	vendor-advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10307
https://usn.ubuntu.com/112-1/

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