UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16642

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UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16642

Summary:

Details: In 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.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16642, http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php, http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3566-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16642