USN-5818-1: PHP vulnerability

23 January 2023

PHP could be made do crash or execute arbitrary code if it received a specially crafted input.

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Releases

Packages

  • php7.2 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php7.4 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter
  • php8.1 - HTML-embedded scripting language interpreter

Details

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or
execute arbitrary code.

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