CVE-2014-8626
php: xmlrpc ISO8601 date format parsing buffer overflow
Severity
CriticalRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · November 5, 2014
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the xmlrpc extension parsed dates in the ISO 8601 format. A specially crafted XML-RPC request or response could possibly cause a PHP application to crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that PHP application.
Statement
This issue did not affect php53 packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, php packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7, and php54-php and php55-php packages in Red Hat Software Collections 1.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow