CVE-2017-8923

Summary

CVECVE-2017-8923
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-05-12 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-20 16:32:00 UTC
DescriptionThe zend_string_extend function in Zend/zend_string.h in PHP through 7.1.5 does not prevent changes to string objects that result in a negative length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a script's use of .= with a long string.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Php Php All All All All
Application Php Php All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PHP 'zend_string_extend()' Function Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
PHP :: Bug #74577 :: Memory corruption in zend_string_extend MISC bugs.php.net Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198686 Ubuntu Security Notification for Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) Vulnerabilities (USN-5300-2)
  • 198690 Ubuntu Security Notification for Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) Vulnerabilities (USN-5300-3)
  • 672181 EulerOS Security Update for Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) (EulerOS-SA-2022-2477)
  • 751733 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php74 (SUSE-SU-2022:0530-1)
  • 751763 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php72 (SUSE-SU-2022:0577-1)
  • 751772 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php7 (SUSE-SU-2022:0679-1)
  • 751779 OpenSUSE Security Update for php7 (openSUSE-SU-2022:0679-1)
  • 751825 OpenSUSE Security Update for php7 (openSUSE-SU-2022:0699-1)
  • 751826 OpenSUSE Security Update for nodejs8 (openSUSE-SU-22022:20000-2)
  • 751828 OpenSUSE Security Update for php7 (openSUSE-SU-22022:20000-2)
  • 752878 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php7 (SUSE-SU-2022:4067-1)
  • 752898 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php7 (SUSE-SU-2022:4069-1)
  • 752901 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php74 (SUSE-SU-2022:4068-1)
  • 753413 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for php7 (SUSE-SU-2022:0699-1)
  • 902524 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) (10142)
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