vulnerability

PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-4605

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 16, 2016
Added
Jun 3, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The mcopy function in softmagic.c in file 5.x, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8, does not properly restrict a certain offset value, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted string that is mishandled by a "Python script text executable" rule.

Solutions

php-upgrade-5_4_40php-upgrade-5_5_24php-upgrade-5_6_8
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