Security advisory

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    "title": "CVE-2016-1904",
    "summary": "Multiple integer overflows in ext/standard/exec.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string to the (1) php_escape_shell_cmd or (2) php_escape_shell_arg function, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.",
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  "published_at": "2016-01-19T05:59:09.373+00:00"
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