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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2016-6295

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2016-6295

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/25/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/03/2016
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

ext/snmp/snmp.c in PHP before 5.5.38, 5.6.x before 5.6.24, and 7.x before 7.0.9 improperly interacts with the unserialize implementation and garbage collection, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted serialized data, a related issue to CVE-2016-5773.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-5_5_38
  • php-upgrade-5_6_24
  • php-upgrade-7_0_9

References

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