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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2017-16642

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2017-16642

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/07/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/05/2017
Modified
07/21/2021

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)

  • php-upgrade-5_6_32
  • php-upgrade-7_0_25
  • php-upgrade-7_1_11

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