Important: php

Issue Overview:

An issue was discovered in Oniguruma 6.2.0, as used in Oniguruma-mod in Ruby through 2.4.1 and mbstring in PHP through 7.1.5. A stack out-of-bounds read occurs in mbc_enc_len() during regular expression searching. Invalid handling of reg->dmin in forward_search_range() could result in an invalid pointer dereference, as an out-of-bounds read from a stack buffer. (CVE-2017-9227)

Affected Packages:

php

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update php to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    php-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-cli-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-fpm-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-common-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-devel-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-ldap-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-pdo-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-mysqlnd-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-pgsql-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-process-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-odbc-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-soap-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-snmp-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-xml-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-xmlrpc-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-mbstring-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-gd-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-bcmath-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-dba-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-embedded-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-pspell-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-recode-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-intl-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-enchant-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
    php-debuginfo-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    php-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-cli-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-fpm-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-common-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-devel-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-ldap-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-pdo-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-mysqlnd-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-pgsql-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-process-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-odbc-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-soap-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-snmp-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-xml-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-xmlrpc-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-mbstring-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-gd-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-bcmath-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-dba-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-embedded-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-pspell-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-recode-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-intl-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-enchant-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
    php-debuginfo-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.i686  
  
src:  
    php-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.src  
  
x86_64:  
    php-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-cli-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-fpm-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-common-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-devel-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-ldap-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-pdo-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-mysqlnd-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-pgsql-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-process-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-odbc-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-soap-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-snmp-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-xml-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-xmlrpc-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-mbstring-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-gd-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-bcmath-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-dba-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-embedded-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-pspell-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-recode-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-intl-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-enchant-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  
    php-debuginfo-5.4.16-46.amzn2.0.5.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-9227

Mitre: CVE-2017-9227