Out-of-Bounds Affecting php package, versions [5.5.0,5.5.28)[5.6.0,5.6.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335216
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 May 2016

CVE-2015-8878  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.5.28, 5.6.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds main/php_open_temporary_file.c in PHP before 5.5.28 and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not ensure thread safety, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (race condition and heap memory corruption) by leveraging an application that performs many temporary-file accesses.

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