What is CVE-2007-1285?

CVE-2007-1285 is a high-severity vulnerability in Novell SUSE Linux, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2007-03-06.

How severe is CVE-2007-1285?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Novell SUSE Linux

CVE-2007-1285

The Zend Engine in PHP 4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and PHP crash) via deeply nested arrays, which trigger deep recursion in the variable destruction routines.

Published 2007-03-06 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.188 (97.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-22.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.182 · newest: 0.188 · change: +0.007

Affected products

Novell SUSE Linux — versions 10.0, 10.1
PHP
Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 7.10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 3.0, 4.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 8, 10

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion

References

launchpad.net/bugs/173043 (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/22764 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0154.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/26048 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466166/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-19.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/24941 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/27864 (Broken Link, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0162.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
us2.php.net/releases/4_4_7.php (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2007-1285?: CVE-2007-1285 is a high-severity vulnerability in Novell SUSE Linux, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2007-03-06.
How severe is CVE-2007-1285?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.