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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-0568: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 16, 2023
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

In PHP 8.0.X before 8.0.28, 8.1.X before 8.1.16 and 8.2.X before 8.2.3, core path resolution function allocate buffer one byte too small. When resolving paths with lengths close to system MAXPATHLEN setting, this may lead to the byte after the allocated buffer being overwritten with NUL value, which might lead to unauthorized data access or modification.

Solutions

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