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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-8617

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-8617

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/19/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/01/2016
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

Format string vulnerability in the zend_throw_or_error function in Zend/zend_execute_API.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a string that is misused as a class name, leading to incorrect error handling.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-7_0_1

References

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