Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting php-recode package, versions <0:5.3.3-46.el6_6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.73% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PHPRECODE-1495682
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed16 Apr 2015

Introduced: 16 Apr 2015

CVE-2015-4601  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 php-recode to version 0:5.3.3-46.el6_6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2015:1218.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php-recode package and not the php-recode package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 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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