Out-of-Bounds Affecting php package, versions [,5.5.34)[5.6.0, 5.6.20)[7.0.0, 7.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.68% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335303
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 May 2016

CVE-2016-4073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.5.34, 5.6.20, 7.0.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Multiple integer overflows in the mbfl_strcut function in ext/mbstring/libmbfl/mbfl/mbfilter.c in PHP before 5.5.34, 5.6.x before 5.6.20, and 7.x before 7.0.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted mb_strcut call.

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