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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-4073: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 20, 2016
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-php
Title
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