Description
The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related issue to the mcrypt_create_iv issue covered by CVE-2007-2727. Note: The PHP team argue that this is not a valid security issue.
Published: 2007-05-16
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2007-2720 The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related issue to the mcrypt_create_iv issue covered by CVE-2007-2727. Note: The PHP team argue that this is not a valid security issue.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-485-1 PHP vulnerabilities
History

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Description The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related issue to the mcrypt_create_iv issue covered by CVE-2007-2727. The soap extension in PHP calls php_rand_r with an uninitialized seed variable, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a related issue to the mcrypt_create_iv issue covered by CVE-2007-2727. Note: The PHP team argue that this is not a valid security issue.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-29T16:00:16.501Z

Reserved: 2007-05-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-2728

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:49:57.307Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-05-16T22:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-2728

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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