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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 21.10 : PHP vulnerability (USN-5303-1)

The remote Ubuntu 20.04 LTS / 21.10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5303-1 advisory.

– In PHP versions 7.4.x below 7.4.28, 8.0.x below 8.0.16, and 8.1.x below 8.1.3, when using filter functions with FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT filter and min/max limits, if the filter fails, there is a possibility to trigger use of allocated memory after free, which can result it crashes, and potentially in overwrite of other memory chunks and RCE. This issue affects: code that uses FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT with min/max limits.
(CVE-2021-21708)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.Read More

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