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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2017-11142

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2017-11142

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/19/2017
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

In PHP before 5.6.31, 7.x before 7.0.17, and 7.1.x before 7.1.3, remote attackers could cause a CPU consumption denial of service attack by injecting long form variables, related to main/php_variables.c.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-5_6_31
  • php-upgrade-7_0_17
  • php-upgrade-7_1_3

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