vulnerability

PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2016-2554

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 16, 2016
Added
Jun 3, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in ext/phar/tar.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive.

Solutions

php-upgrade-5_5_32php-upgrade-5_6_18php-upgrade-7_0_3
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