Description
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.
Published: 2017-11-07
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 8.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4080-1 php7.0 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4081-1 php5 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-7829 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3566-1 PHP vulnerabilities
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:27:04.310Z

Reserved: 2017-11-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-16642

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-07T21:29:00.290

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-16642

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-11-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-16642 - Bugzilla

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