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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2021-21704: Security patch for php73 (ALAS-2021-1532)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 7, 2021
Added
Sep 9, 2021
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.29, 7.4.x below 7.4.21 and 8.0.x below 8.0.8, when using Firebird PDO driver extension, a malicious database server could cause crashes in various database functions, such as getAttribute(), execute(), fetch() and others by returning invalid response data that is not parsed correctly by the driver. This can result in crashes, denial of service or potentially memory corruption.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-php73
Title
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