Double Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package php5 (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-PHP5-620398
- published7 Aug 2016
- disclosed7 Aug 2016
Introduced: 7 Aug 2016
CVE-2016-5768 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php5 package and not the php5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5768
- https://support.apple.com/HT207170
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3618
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5768
- http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/5b597a2e5b28e2d5a52fc1be13f425f08f47cb62?w=1
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72402
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00003.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/23/4
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2598.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91396