Out-of-bounds read in PHP - CVE-2020-7059

 

Out-of-bounds read in PHP - CVE-2020-7059

Published: February 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU25109
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7059
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when using the "fgetss()" function to read data with stripping tags. A remote attacker can supply data that will cause this function to read past the allocated buffer, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the application.


Affected software

PHP
Debian Linux
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support
Opensuse
openEuler
Fedora
Red Hat Software Collections
Tenable.sc
php7 (Alpine package)
php7.2 (Ubuntu package)
php7.3 (Ubuntu package)
php7.0 (Debian package)
php-ldap
php-cli
php-recode
php-pdo
php-pgsql
php-help
php-gmp
php-embedded
php-bcmath
php-mysqlnd
php-fpm
php-snmp
php-debuginfo
php-gd
php-tidy
php-json
php-intl
php-odbc
php-debugsource
php-devel
php-xmlrpc
php-process
php-dbg
php-enchant
php-xml
php-common
php-dba
php
php-mbstring
php-soap
php-opcache
php7.3 (Debian package)
rh-php73-php (Red Hat package)

How to mitigate CVE-2020-7059

Install updates from vendor's website.

PHP - addressed in versions 7.2.27, 7.3.14, 7.4.2
Tenable.sc - update to 5.19.0
php7 (Alpine package) - update to 7.2.27-r0
php7.2 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
php7.0 (Debian package) - update to 7.0.33-0+deb9u7
php-ldap - update to 7.2.10-10
php-cli - update to 7.2.10-10
php-recode - update to 7.2.10-10
php-pdo - update to 7.2.10-10
php-pgsql - update to 7.2.10-10
php-help - update to 7.2.10-10
php-gmp - update to 7.2.10-10
php-embedded - update to 7.2.10-10
php-bcmath - update to 7.2.10-10
php-mysqlnd - update to 7.2.10-10
php-fpm - update to 7.2.10-10
php-snmp - update to 7.2.10-10
php-debuginfo - update to 7.2.10-10
php-gd - update to 7.2.10-10
php-tidy - update to 7.2.10-10
php-json - update to 7.2.10-10
php-intl - update to 7.2.10-10
php-odbc - update to 7.2.10-10
php-debugsource - update to 7.2.10-10
php-devel - update to 7.2.10-10
php-xmlrpc - update to 7.2.10-10
php-process - update to 7.2.10-10
php-dbg - update to 7.2.10-10
php-enchant - update to 7.2.10-10
php-xml - update to 7.2.10-10
php-common - update to 7.2.10-10
php-dba - update to 7.2.10-10
php - update to 7.2.10-10
php-mbstring - update to 7.2.10-10
php-soap - update to 7.2.10-10
php-opcache - update to 7.2.10-10
php - addressed in versions 7.3.14-1.fc30, 7.3.14-1.fc31
php7.3 (Debian package) - update to 7.3.14-1~deb10u1
rh-php73-php (Red Hat package) - update to 7.3.20-1.el7

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