vulnerability

PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2016-3141

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 31, 2016
Added
May 5, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in wddx.c in the WDDX extension in PHP before 5.5.33 and 5.6.x before 5.6.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a wddx_deserialize call on XML data containing a crafted var element.

Solutions

php-upgrade-5_5_33php-upgrade-5_6_19
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