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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-4072: Security patch for php56, php55 (ALAS-2016-698)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 3, 2016
Added
May 3, 2016
Modified
Apr 16, 2020

Description

The Phar extension in PHP before 5.5.34, 5.6.x before 5.6.20, and 7.x before 7.0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted filename, as demonstrated by mishandling of \0 characters by the phar_analyze_path function in ext/phar/phar.c.

Solutions

amazon-linux-upgrade--php55amazon-linux-upgrade-php56

References

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