CVE-2017-16642

NameCVE-2017-16642
DescriptionIn PHP before 5.6.32, 7.x before 7.0.25, and 7.1.x before 7.1.11, an error in the date extension's timelib_meridian handling of 'front of' and 'back of' directives could be used by attackers able to supply date strings to leak information from the interpreter, related to ext/date/lib/parse_date.c out-of-bounds reads affecting the php_parse_date function. NOTE: this is a different issue than CVE-2017-11145.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-4080-1, DSA-4081-1

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
php5sourcewheezy(not affected)
php5sourcejessie5.6.33+dfsg-0+deb8u1DSA-4081-1
php5source(unstable)(unfixed)
php7.0sourcestretch7.0.27-0+deb9u1DSA-4080-1
php7.0source(unstable)7.0.25-1
php7.1source(unstable)7.1.11-1

Notes

[wheezy] - php5 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present; proof of concept produces expected non-buggy output; upstream patch also appears overly intrusive)
Fixed in: 5.6.32, 7.0.25, 7.1.11
PHP Bug: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=75055
https://github.com/derickr/timelib/commit/aa9156006e88565e1f1a5f7cc088b18322d57536
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/5c0455bf2c8cd3c25401407f158e820aa3b239e1

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