CVE-2015-4601 Affecting php55-php-enchant package, versions <0:5.5.21-2.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.89% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-PHP55PHPENCHANT-2491037
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed16 May 2016

Introduced: 16 May 2016

CVE-2015-4601  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 php55-php-enchant to version 0:5.5.21-2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2015-1053.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php55-php-enchant package and not the php55-php-enchant package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

PHP before 5.6.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an unexpected data type, related to "type confusion" issues in (1) ext/soap/php_encoding.c, (2) ext/soap/php_http.c, and (3) ext/soap/soap.c, a different issue than CVE-2015-4600.

CVSS Scores

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