Out-of-bounds read in PHP - CVE-2017-9227
Published: July 6, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU7347
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-9227
CWE-ID: CWE-125
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 attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information.
The weakness exists in the mbstring due to an error in handling of reg->dmin in forward_search_range(). A remote attacker can trigger stack out-of-bounds read in mbc_enc_len() during regular expression searching and read arbitrary files on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
The weakness exists in the mbstring due to an error in handling of reg->dmin in forward_search_range(). A remote attacker can trigger stack out-of-bounds read in mbc_enc_len() during regular expression searching and read arbitrary files on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in information disclosure.
How to mitigate CVE-2017-9227
Update to version 7.0.21.