CVE-2014-8626

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-11-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the date_from_ISO8601 function in ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xmlrpc.c in PHP before 5.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by including a timezone field in a date, leading to improper XML-RPC encoding.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.2.6; 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5

References

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c818d0d01341907fee82bdb81cab07b7d93bb9db
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/06/3
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1824.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1825.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70928
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45226
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155607
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c818d0d01341907fee82bdb81cab07b7d93bb9db
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/06/3
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1824.html

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