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php -- readfile() DoS vulnerability

Description:

A SUSE Security advisory reports:

A bug in the readfile() function of php4 could be used to to crash the httpd running the php4 code when accessing files with a multiple of the architectures page size leading to a denial of service.

References:

Affects:

portaudit: php -- readfile() DoS vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>