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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for php56, php55 (ALAS-2016-685) (CVE-2016-2554)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for php56, php55 (ALAS-2016-685) (CVE-2016-2554)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
04/14/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/14/2016
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

A stack overflow vulnerability was reported that may occur when decompressing tar archives due to phar_tar_writeheaders() potentially copying non-terminated linknames from entries parsed by phar_parse_tarfile().

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-bcmath
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-cli
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-common
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-dba
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-embedded
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-enchant
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-fpm
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-gd
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-gmp
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-imap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-intl
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-ldap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-mbstring
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-mcrypt
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-mssql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-mysqlnd
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-odbc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-opcache
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-pdo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-pgsql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-process
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-pspell
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-recode
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-snmp
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-soap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-tidy
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-xml
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php55-xmlrpc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-bcmath
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-cli
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-common
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-dba
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-dbg
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-embedded
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-enchant
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-fpm
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-gd
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-gmp
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-imap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-intl
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-ldap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-mbstring
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-mcrypt
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-mssql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-mysqlnd
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-odbc
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-opcache
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-pdo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-pgsql
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-process
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-pspell
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-recode
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-snmp
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-soap
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-tidy
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-xml
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-php56-xmlrpc

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