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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1076-1 php5 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

30 Aug 2017

Affected Packages:

php5

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-12933.

More information:

The finish_nested_data function in ext/standard/var_unserializer.re in PHP is prone to a buffer over-read while unserializing untrusted data. Exploitation of this issue can have an unspecified impact on the integrity of PHP.

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 5.4.45-0+deb7u11.

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.

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