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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-16642: Vulnerability in PHP

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-16642: Vulnerability in PHP

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/07/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/18/2018
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

In PHP before 5.6.32, 7.x before 7.0.25, and 7.1.x before 7.1.11, an error in the date extension's timelib_meridian handling of 'front of' and 'back of' directives could be used by attackers able to supply date strings to leak information from the interpreter, related to ext/date/lib/parse_date.c out-of-bounds reads affecting the php_parse_date function. NOTE: this is a different issue than CVE-2017-11145.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-php-56-5-6-34-0-175-3-31-0-2-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-php-71-7-1-15-0-175-3-31-0-2-0

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