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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-9675

An issue was discovered in PHP 7.x before 7.1.27 and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. phar_tar_writeheaders_int in ext/phar/tar.c has a buffer overflow via a long link value. NOTE: The vendor indicates that the link value is used only when an archive contains a symlink, which currently cannot happen: "This issue allows theoretical compromise of security, but a practical attack is usually impossible.

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CVE-2019-9675

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Mar 2019, 11:29 UTC

An issue was discovered in PHP 7.x before 7.1.27 and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. phar_tar_writeheaders_int in ext/phar/tar.c has a buffer overflow via a long link value. NOTE: The vendor indicates that the link value is used only when an archive contains a symlink, which currently cannot happen: "This issue allows theoretical compromise of security, but a practical attack is usually impossible.

osv:CVE-2019-9675
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-9675",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in PHP 7.x before 7.1.27 and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. phar_tar_writeheaders_int in ext/phar/tar.c has a buffer overflow via a long link value. NOTE: The vendor indicates that the link value is used only when an archive contains a symlink, which currently cannot happen: \"This issue allows theoretical compromise of security, but a practical attack is usually impossible.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-9675",
    "products": [],
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:36.000401973Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3922-2/",
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3922-3/",
        "https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77586"
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433876,
  "published_at": "2019-03-11T11:29:12.08+00:00"
}