Resource Exhaustion Affecting php5 package, versions <5.6.33+dfsg-0+deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.71% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-PHP5-395293
  • published10 Jul 2017
  • disclosed10 Jul 2017

Introduced: 10 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11142  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (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 5.6.31, 7.x before 7.0.17, and 7.1.x before 7.1.3, remote attackers could cause a CPU consumption denial of service attack by injecting long form variables, related to main/php_variables.c.