CVE-2017-11362 Memory corruption in n/a
Remote attackers can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow in the PHP intl extension via a long locale string, causing a crash or potential code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2017-11362?
CVE-2017-11362 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Php Php, published on 17 Jul 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In PHP 7.x before 7.0.21 and 7.1.x before 7.1.7, ext/intl/msgformat/msgformat_parse.c does not restrict the locale length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact within International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ via a long first argument to the msgfmt_parse_message function.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-11362?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Php Php.
How do I fix CVE-2017-11362?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2017-11362 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-11362 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Php Php
Sources
Also known as GHSA-p8vm-62x6-j22w, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11362.