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A php security update has been released for Arch Linux.



ASA-202101-9: php: insufficient validation


Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202101-9
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Severity: Medium
Date : 2021-01-12
CVE-ID : CVE-2020-7071
Package : php
Type : insufficient validation
Remote : No
Link :   https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1415

Summary
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The package php before version 7.4.14-1 is vulnerable to insufficient
validation.

Resolution
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Upgrade to 7.4.14-1.

# pacman -Syu "php>=7.4.14-1"

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 7.4.14.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
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A security issue was found in the php_url_parse_ex() function in PHP,
which leads to FILTER_VALIDATE_URL accepting URLs with invalid
userinfo. It is fixed in versions 8.0.1, 7.4.14 and 7.3.26.

Impact
=====
A malicious remote user might bypass URL validation.

References
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  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69242
  https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?idw423
  https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h?f837381ef642d7fb369bfd0069e7525d4c22ea
  https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;hS46d0ae69f290c7704a39cd10a574a2d661f05a
  https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h?f5aed22193106271510efd643ba8f349b7d85f
  https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-7071