Out-of-bounds Read Vulnerability in PHP Date Extension

CVE-2017-16642 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

In PHP before 5.6.32, 7.x before 7.0.25, and 7.1.x before 7.1.11, an error in the date extension's timelib_meridian handling of 'front of' and 'back of' directives could be used by attackers able to supply date strings to leak information from the interpreter, related to ext/date/lib/parse_date.c out-of-bounds reads affecting the php_parse_date function. NOTE: this is a different issue than CVE-2017-11145.

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