Out-of-Bounds Affecting php package, versions [,5.4.37)[5.5.0, 5.5.21)[5.6.0, 5.6.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
13.4% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335241
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Jan 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Jan 2015

CVE-2014-9427  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.4.37, 5.5.21, 5.6.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in the CGI component in PHP through 5.4.36, 5.5.x through 5.5.20, and 5.6.x through 5.6.4, when mmap is used to read a .php file, does not properly consider the mapping's length during processing of an invalid file that begins with a # character and lacks a newline character, which causes an out-of-bounds read and might (1) allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from php-cgi process memory by leveraging the ability to upload a .php file or (2) trigger unexpected code execution if a valid PHP script is present in memory locations adjacent to the mapping.

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