CVE-2017-12934

Publication date 18 August 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

ext/standard/var_unserializer.re in PHP 7.0.x before 7.0.21 and 7.1.x before 7.1.7 is prone to a heap use after free while unserializing untrusted data, related to the zval_get_type function in Zend/zend_types.h. Exploitation of this issue can have an unspecified impact on the integrity of PHP.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
php7.0	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
php7.1	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

php 5.x not affected as per bug

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N