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CVE-2017-16642 in the critical feed json

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'…

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-7829

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
26.4%
EPSS 26.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • php php 5.6.32, 7.0.25, 7.1.11
  • php5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.23
  • php7.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.0.25-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16642

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  • rh-php71-php RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-gd RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-cli RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-dba RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-dbg RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-fpm RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-gmp RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7
  • rh-php71-php-pdo RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 7.1.30-1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2019:2519RHSA-2018:1296

  • php53 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 5.3.17-112.10.1
  • php5 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP2, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 5.5.14-109.13.1
  • php7 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP2, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 7.0.7-50.23.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0003-1SUSE-SU-2017:3277-1SUSE-SU-2017:3237-1

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red hat product security vex CVE-2017-16642 updated cvss 2.9

php: Out-of-bound read in timelib_meridian()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php, php53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +18 more Red Hat Software Collections rh-php56-php, rh-php56-php-gd, rh-php56-php-cli, rh-php56-php-dba, rh-php56-php-dbg, rh-php56-php-fpm, +22 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) rh-php70-php 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-gd 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-cli 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-dba 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-dbg 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-fpm 7.0.27-1.el6, +24 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) rh-php70-php 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php70-php-gd 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php70-php-cli 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-dba 7.0.27-1.el7, +50 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) rh-php70-php 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-gd 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-cli 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-dba 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-dbg 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-fpm 7.0.27-1.el6, +24 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) rh-php70-php 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-gd 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-cli 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-dba 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-dbg 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-fpm 7.0.27-1.el7, +22 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) rh-php70-php 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php70-php-gd 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php70-php-cli 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-dba 7.0.27-1.el7, +50 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.5) rh-php70-php 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php70-php-gd 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php70-php-cli 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-dba 7.0.27-1.el7, +50 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1296
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.6) rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-cli 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dba 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-dbg 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php71-php-fpm 7.1.30-1.el7, +22 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2019:2519
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) rh-php70-php 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-gd 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-cli 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-dba 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-dbg 7.0.27-1.el6, rh-php70-php-fpm 7.0.27-1.el6, +24 more Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) rh-php70-php 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php71-php 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php70-php-gd 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php71-php-gd 7.1.30-1.el7, rh-php70-php-cli 7.0.27-1.el7, rh-php70-php-dba 7.0.27-1.el7, +50 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1296

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-43133)

Exploit prediction

26.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-43133 PHP 7.1.8 - Heap Buffer Overflow dos, 2017-11-09

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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Technology feeds

References

Sources

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