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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-4601

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-4601

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/03/2016
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

PHP before 5.6.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an unexpected data type, related to "type confusion" issues in (1) ext/soap/php_encoding.c, (2) ext/soap/php_http.c, and (3) ext/soap/soap.c, a different issue than CVE-2015-4600.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-5_6_7

References

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