Improper Input Validation Affecting php package, versions [,7.1.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335182
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 May 2017

CVE-2017-8923  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 7.1.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. The zend_string_extend function in Zend/zend_string.h in PHP through 7.1.5 does not prevent changes to string objects that result in a negative length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a script's use of .= with a long string.

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