Use After Free Affecting php7 package, versions <7.4.32-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE314-PHP7-3058800
  • published19 Feb 2022
  • disclosed27 Feb 2022

Introduced: 19 Feb 2022

CVE-2021-21708  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.14 php7 to version 7.4.32-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php7 package and not the php7 package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.14 relevant fixed versions and status.

In PHP versions 7.4.x below 7.4.28, 8.0.x below 8.0.16, and 8.1.x below 8.1.3, when using filter functions with FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT filter and min/max limits, if the filter fails, there is a possibility to trigger use of allocated memory after free, which can result it crashes, and potentially in overwrite of other memory chunks and RCE. This issue affects: code that uses FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT with min/max limits.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1