Buffer overflow in PHP - CVE-2014-8626
Published: November 23, 2014 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41088
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8626
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: PHP Group
Affected software:
PHP
PHP
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Stack-based buffer overflow in the date_from_ISO8601 function in ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xmlrpc.c in PHP before 5.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by including a timezone field in a date, leading to improper XML-RPC encoding.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-8626
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=c818d0d01341907fee82bdb81cab07b7d93bb9db
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/06/3
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1824.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1825.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70928
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45226
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155607