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Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2016-9934)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 4, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

It has been discovered that ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via crafted serialized data in a wddxPacket XML document, as demonstrated by a PDORow string.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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