Out-of-bounds Write The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package hhvm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1710-HHVM-664139
  • published17 Feb 2017
  • disclosed17 Feb 2017

Introduced: 17 Feb 2017

CVE-2016-6870  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream hhvm package and not the hhvm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Out-of-bounds write in the (1) mb_detect_encoding, (2) mb_send_mail, and (3) mb_detect_order functions in Facebook HHVM before 3.15.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.