Out-of-bounds Read Affecting rh-php71-php-ldap package, versions <0:7.1.30-1.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.63% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RHPHP71PHPLDAP-4800522
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • 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 RHEL:7 rh-php71-php-ldap to version 0:7.1.30-1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:2519.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-php71-php-ldap package and not the rh-php71-php-ldap package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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.