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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-4540: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-4540: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
01/08/2018

Description

The grapheme_stripos function in ext/intl/grapheme/grapheme_string.c in PHP before 5.5.35, 5.6.x before 5.6.21, and 7.x before 7.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a negative offset.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-php

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