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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-17082: php5 XSS due to the header Transfer-Encoding chunked

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-17082: php5 XSS due to the header Transfer-Encoding chunked

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
09/16/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/26/2018
Modified
12/04/2019

Description

The Apache2 component in PHP before 5.6.38, 7.0.x before 7.0.32, 7.1.x before 7.1.22, and 7.2.x before 7.2.10 allows XSS via the body of a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" request, because the bucket brigade is mishandled in the php_handler function in sapi/apache2handler/sapi_apache2.c.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-php7

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