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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-8866

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-8866

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/21/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/03/2016
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

ext/libxml/libxml.c in PHP before 5.5.22 and 5.6.x before 5.6.6, when PHP-FPM is used, does not isolate each thread from libxml_disable_entity_loader changes in other threads, which allows remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) and XML Entity Expansion (XEE) attacks via a crafted XML document, a related issue to CVE-2015-5161.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-5_5_22
  • php-upgrade-5_6_6

References

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