CVE-2017-16642

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 07 Nov 2017, 21:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 20:27

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
42/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
8.26% LOW
8% probability -0.11%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

07 Nov 2017, 21:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 20:27
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 8.26%• Percentile: 92%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-125•Out-of-bounds Read

    The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    14.04

  • debian•debian_linux

    8.0 | 9.0

  • netapp•clustered_data_ontap

    na

  • netapp•storage_automation_store

    na

  • Unknown•PHP

    < 5.6.32 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.25 | ≥ 7.1.0, < 7.1.11

References (13)