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CVE-2017-16642

Published: 7 November 2017

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
leosilva
following debian comments, precise is not affected.

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
php5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

trusty
Released (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.23)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a7815e63bdab95f7b9b0e32c52c81a4b6ad3a8f6

php7.0
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (7.0.25)
xenial
Released (7.0.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)
php7.1
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Not vulnerable
(7.1.11-0ubuntu0.17.10.1)
bionic Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (7.1.11)
xenial Does not exist

zesty Does not exist

Patches:

upstream: https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/5c0455bf2c8cd3c25401407f158e820aa3b239e1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact None
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N