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Old 6th January 2011
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Default Floating point DoS attack (PHP)

From http://www.h-online.com/security/new...k-1163838.html

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A bug in the way the PHP scripting language converts certain numbers may cause it to tie up all system resources. For example, on 32-bit systems, converting the string "2.2250738585072011e-308" into a floating point number using the function zend_strtod results in an infinite loop and consequent full utilisation of CPU resources.
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