Buffer overflow in PHP



Published: 2019-02-23 | Updated: 2020-07-17
Risk High
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2019-9025
CWE-ID CWE-119
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Universal components / Libraries / Scripting languages

Vendor PHP Group

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one high risk vulnerability.

1) Buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU31152

Risk: High

CVSSv3.1: 8.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9025

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.

An issue was discovered in PHP 7.3.x before 7.3.1. An invalid multibyte string supplied as an argument to the mb_split() function in ext/mbstring/php_mbregex.c can cause PHP to execute memcpy() with a negative argument, which could read and write past buffers allocated for the data.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

PHP: 7.3.0 - 7.3.0beta3

External links

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77367
http://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190321-0001/


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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