CVE-2019-9675

Publication date 11 March 2019

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.1 · High

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 19.04 disco Not in release
18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29
php7.0 19.04 disco Not in release
18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
php7.2 19.04 disco
Fixed 7.2.15-0ubuntu3
18.10 cosmic
Fixed 7.2.15-0ubuntu0.18.10.2
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 7.2.15-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
php7.3 19.04 disco Not in release
18.10 cosmic Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

released in USN-3922-1, ommited from text

Patch details

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Package Patch details
php7.0
php7.2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.1 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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