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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2017-8923

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2017-8923

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/12/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/30/2017
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

The zend_string_extend function in Zend/zend_string.h in PHP through 7.1.5 does not prevent changes to string objects that result in a negative length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a script's use of .= with a long string.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-7_1_6

References

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