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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4993-1 php7.3 -- security update

Date Reported:

25 Oct 2021

Affected Packages:

php7.3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-21703.

More information:

An out-of-bounds read and write flaw was discovered in the PHP-FPM code, which could result in escalation of privileges from local unprivileged user to the root user.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 7.3.31-1~deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php7.3 packages.

For the detailed security status of php7.3 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/php7.3