SB2014112303 - Buffer overflow in PHP 

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SB2014112303 - Buffer overflow in PHP

Published: November 23, 2014 Updated: August 9, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2014112303
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8626)

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References