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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-5768) ELSA-2016-2598: php security and bug fix update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2016-5768) ELSA-2016-2598: php security and bug fix update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/09/2016
Modified
01/22/2018

Description

Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-bcmath
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-cli
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-common
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-dba
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-embedded
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-enchant
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-fpm
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-gd
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-intl
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-ldap
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-mbstring
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-mysql
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-mysqlnd
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-odbc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-pdo
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-pgsql
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-process
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-pspell
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-recode
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-snmp
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-soap
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-xml
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-php-xmlrpc

References

  • ELSA-2016-2598
  • APPLE-SA-2016-09-20
  • RHSA-2016:2598
  • RHSA-2016:2750
  • DLA-628-1
  • DSA-3618
  • 91396
  • CVE-2016-5768
  • USN-3045-1
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