This issue leads to a temporary denial of service (high CPU consumption) when a PHP script handles numeric values from untrusted user input. It does not affect the versions of PHP as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 or 5. It did affect the PHP 5.3 (php53) package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
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This issue leads to a temporary denial of service (high CPU consumption) when a PHP script handles numeric values from untrusted user input. It does not affect the versions of PHP as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 or 5. It did affect the PHP 5.3 (php53) package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.