Out-of-bounds Read Affecting php5 package, versions <5.6.33+dfsg-0+deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-PHP5-394737
  • published7 Nov 2017
  • disclosed7 Nov 2017

Introduced: 7 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16642  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 php5 to version 5.6.33+dfsg-0+deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php5 package and not the php5 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.