CVE-2017-8923: php: Overflowing the length of string causes crash

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.8

The zend_string_extend function in Zend/zend_string.h in PHP through 7.1.5 does not prevent changes to string objects that result in a negative length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a script's use of .= with a long string.