In PHP versions before 7.4.31, 8.0.24 and 8.1.11, the phar uncompressor code would recursively uncompress quines gzip files, resulting in an infinite loop.
Weakness
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Php | Php | * | 7.4.31 (excluding) |
| Php | Php | 8.0.0 (including) | 8.0.24 (excluding) |
| Php | Php | 8.1.0 (including) | 8.1.11 (excluding) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | RedHat | php:8.0-8070020230118114629.ef331662 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | RedHat | php:7.4-8080020230118140634.cc342424 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | php-0:8.0.27-1.el9_1 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | RedHat | php:8.1-9020020230120141750.9 | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | esm-infra-legacy/trusty | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Php5 | Ubuntu | trusty/esm | * |
| Php7.0 | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Php7.0 | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| Php7.2 | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Php7.2 | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Php7.4 | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Php7.4 | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Php8.1 | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Php8.1 | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Php8.1 | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Php8.1 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
References
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81726
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00030.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2L5SUVYGAKSWODUQPZFBUB3AL6E6CSEV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VI3E6A3ZTH2RP7OMLJHSVFIEQBIFM6RF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XNIEABBH5XCXLFWWZYIDE457SPEDZTXV/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-03
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221209-0001/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5277
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81726
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00030.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2L5SUVYGAKSWODUQPZFBUB3AL6E6CSEV/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VI3E6A3ZTH2RP7OMLJHSVFIEQBIFM6RF/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XNIEABBH5XCXLFWWZYIDE457SPEDZTXV/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-03
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221209-0001/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5277