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F5 Networks: K51390683 (CVE-2016-5094): PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2016-5094 and CVE-2016-5095

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F5 Networks: K51390683 (CVE-2016-5094): PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2016-5094 and CVE-2016-5095

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/03/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/16/2017
Modified
09/16/2019

Description

Integer overflow in the php_html_entities function in ext/standard/html.c in PHP before 5.5.36 and 5.6.x before 5.6.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large output string from the htmlspecialchars function.

Solution(s)

  • f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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