CVE-2017-16642
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'...
- Published
- Nov 7, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Evidence observed
- Nov 9, 2017
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NModerate · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 97.5%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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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.
Sources
1Wei Lei and Liu Yang · multiple · Nov 9, 2017
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