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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-16642

high Nessus Plugin ID 221214

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - 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.
 (CVE-2017-16642)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-16642

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 221214

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2017_16642.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 8/21/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-16642

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-zts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pspell, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-zts, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-recode, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-pspell, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-recode, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-tidy, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-mysql, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-intl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-process, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-tidy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-intl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-process

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-16642