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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2014-0236

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2014-0236

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/03/2016
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

file before 5.18, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a zero root_storage value in a CDF file, related to cdf.c and readcdf.c.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-5_6_0

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