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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-8616

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-8616

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/19/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/01/2016
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Collator::sortWithSortKeys function in ext/intl/collator/collator_sort.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the relationships between a key buffer and a destroyed array.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-7_0_1

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