UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16642

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2017-16642
Downstream
USN-3566-1
Published: 07 Nov 2017, 00:00
Last modified:22 Apr 2026, 11:19

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.0 (osv_ubuntu)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

07 Nov 2017, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
22 Apr 2026, 11:19
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

Affected Systems

  • ubuntu•php5

    < 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.23

  • ubuntu•php7.0

    < 7.0.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

References (5)