Use After Free Affecting php package, versions [,5.5.38)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.29% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335390
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Jul 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jul 2016

CVE-2016-6290  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.5.38 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free ext/session/session.c in PHP before 5.5.38, 5.6.x before 5.6.24, and 7.x before 7.0.9 does not properly maintain a certain hash data structure, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors related to session deserialization.

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