A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PHP parsed DNS TXT records. A malicious DNS server or a man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as the PHP interpreter if a PHP application used the dns_get_record() function to perform a DNS query.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | php | 2014-08-21 11:15 | ALAS-2014-393 |
Amazon Linux 1 | php54 | 2014-07-09 16:24 | ALAS-2014-367 |
Amazon Linux 1 | php55 | 2014-07-09 16:42 | ALAS-2014-372 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |