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CVE-2019-9675

php: buffer overflow in ext/phar/tar.c

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

3.7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · February 8, 2019

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

An issue was discovered in PHP 7.x before 7.1.27 and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. phar_tar_writeheaders_int in ext/phar/tar.c has a buffer overflow via a long link value. NOTE: The vendor indicates that the link value is used only when an archive contains a symlink, which currently cannot happen: "This issue allows theoretical compromise of security, but a practical attack is usually impossible.

Statement

Red Hat Product Security determined that this flaw was not a security vulnerability. See the Bugzilla link for more details.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-121 · Stack-based Buffer Overflow