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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-12933): PHP vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 17, 2017
Added
Feb 13, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The finish_nested_data function in ext/standard/var_unserializer.re in PHP before 5.6.31, 7.0.x before 7.0.21, and 7.1.x before 7.1.7 is prone to a buffer over-read while unserializing untrusted data. Exploitation of this issue can have an unspecified impact on the integrity of PHP.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php5ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cgiubuntu-upgrade-php5-cliubuntu-upgrade-php5-fpm

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