vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-8923): PHP vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 12, 2017
Added
Feb 23, 2022
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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.

Solutions

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