CVE-2014-9427 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Apple OS X EL Capitan V10.11
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
4.9%
top 10.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 3
Latest updateMay 17
Description
sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in the CGI component in PHP through 5.4.36, 5.5.x through 5.5.20, and 5.6.x through 5.6.4, when mmap is used to read a .php file, does not properly consider the mapping's length during processing of an invalid file that begins with a # character and lacks a newline character, which causes an out-of-bounds read and might (1) allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from php-cgi process memory by leveraging the ability to upload a .php file or (2) trigger unexpect…
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4