NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting php package, versions [7.0.0,7.0.27)[7.1.0,7.1.13)[7.2.0,7.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335316
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Aug 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-14884  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 7.0.27, 7.1.13, 7.2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. An issue was discovered in PHP 7.0.x before 7.0.27, 7.1.x before 7.1.13, and 7.2.x before 7.2.1. Inappropriately parsing an HTTP response leads to a segmentation fault because http_header_value in ext/standard/http_fopen_wrapper.c can be a NULL value that is mishandled in an atoi call.

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