PHP: Denial of service

PHP: Denial of service A vulnerabilities in PHP could lead to a Denial of Service condition. PHP 2020-09-13 2020-09-13 736158 local, remote 7.2.33 7.3.21 7.4.9 7.2.33 7.3.21 7.4.9

PHP is an open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development.

It was discovered that PHP did not properly handle PHAR files.

A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted PHAR file using PHP, possibly allowing attacker to obtain sensitive information or cause a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All PHP 7.2 users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/php-7.2.33"

All PHP 7.3 users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/php-7.3.21"

All PHP 7.4 users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/php-7.4.9"

CVE-2020-7068 whissi whissi