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Debian: CVE-2017-16642: php7.0 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-16642: php7.0 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
11/07/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/10/2018
Modified
11/27/2024

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)

  • debian-upgrade-php7-0

References

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