Null pointer dereference in PHP - #VU11344

 

Null pointer dereference in PHP - #VU11344

Published: March 29, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU11344
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-476
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an error when image resource created by imagecreate function which is not truecolor will treat as truecolor in gdImageSetAAPixelColor function when antialias option is on even 'im->tpixels' is null. A remote attacker can trigger NULL pointer dereference and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

PHP

Remediation

Update to version 7.2.4.


External References

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