CVE-2014-6061: Symfony has a security issue when parsing the Authorization header All 2.0.X, 2.1.X, 2.2.X, 2.3.X, 2.4.X, and 2.5.X versions of the Symfony HttpFoundation…

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Symfony has a security issue when parsing the Authorization header

All 2.0.X, 2.1.X, 2.2.X, 2.3.X, 2.4.X, and 2.5.X versions of the Symfony HttpFoundation component are affected by this security issue.

This issue has been fixed in Symfony 2.3.19, 2.4.9, and 2.5.4. Note that no fixes are provided for Symfony 2.0, 2.1, and 2.2 as they are not maintained anymore.

### Description
When an application uses an HTTP basic or digest authentication, Symfony does not parse the `Authorization` header properly, which could be exploited in some server setups (no exploits have been demonstrated though.)

### Resolution
The parsing of the `Authorization` header has been fixed to comply to the HTTP specification.

The patch for this issue is available here: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/11829

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
symfony	http-foundation	>= 2.0.0 < 2.3.19	2.3.19
symfony	http-foundation	>= 2.4.0 < 2.4.9	2.4.9
symfony	http-foundation	>= 2.5.0 < 2.5.4	2.5.4
symfony	symfony	>= 2.0.0 < 2.3.19	2.3.19
symfony	symfony	>= 2.4.0 < 2.4.9	2.4.9
symfony	symfony	>= 2.5.0 < 2.5.4	2.5.4

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