CVE-2016-7478 Affecting php-tidy package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
9.43% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-PHPTIDY-1358055
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed15 Sept 2016

Introduced: 15 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7478  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 php-tidy.

NVD Description

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

Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP, possibly 5.x before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted Exception object in serialized data, a related issue to CVE-2015-8876.