Out-of-bounds Read Affecting php-xml package, versions <0:5.4.16-23.el7_0.3


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
11.87% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-PHPXML-5024206
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Oct 2014

Introduced: 14 Oct 2014

CVE-2014-3668  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 php-xml to version 0:5.4.16-23.el7_0.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:1767.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php-xml package and not the php-xml package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buffer overflow in the date_from_ISO8601 function in the mkgmtime implementation in libxmlrpc/xmlrpc.c in the XMLRPC extension in PHP before 5.4.34, 5.5.x before 5.5.18, and 5.6.x before 5.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a crafted first argument to the xmlrpc_set_type function or (2) a crafted argument to the xmlrpc_decode function, related to an out-of-bounds read operation.

CVSS Scores

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