CVE-2019-9675 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in PHP
Severity
8.1HIGHNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 11
Latest updateMay 14
Description
An issue was discovered in PHP 7.x before 7.1.27 and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. phar_tar_writeheaders_int in ext/phar/tar.c has a buffer overflow via a long link value. NOTE: The vendor indicates that the link value is used only when an archive contains a symlink, which currently cannot happen: "This issue allows theoretical compromise of security, but a practical attack is usually impossible.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04