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CVE-2007-3998

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-3998 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the wordwrap function of PHP versions prior to 4.4.8 and 5.2.4, affecting various Linux distributions. An attacker can trigger a divide-by-zero error or infinite loop by providing specific arguments to the function, leading to an application crash. Rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.0.0, < 4.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.0.0, < 5.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.06CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0299 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: php-0:4.3.2-43.ent
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: php-0:4.3.9-3.22.9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: php-0:5.1.6-15.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 4Fixed in: php-0:5.1.6-3.el4s1.8
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-3998Low

php floating point exception inside wordwrap

Aug 30, 2007

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2007-0889.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26642
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26822
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26838
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26871
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26895
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26930
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26967
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27102
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27377
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27545
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27864
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28249
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/28658
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30288
Third Party Advisory
secweb.se / en/advisories/php-wordwrap-vulnerability
Third Party Advisory
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1693
Broken Link
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1702
Broken Link
launchpad.net / bugs/173043
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10603
Third Party Advisory
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-449.htm
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 549-1
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00354.html
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1444
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1578
Third Party Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
php.net / ChangeLog-5.php
Vendor Advisory
php.net / releases/5_2_4.php
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0890.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0891.html
Third Party Advisory
trustix.org / errata/2007/0026
Broken Link
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-549-2
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/3023
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory