vulnerability

PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2016-7478

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 11, 2017
Added
Jan 16, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP, possibly 5.x before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted Exception object in serialized data, a related issue to CVE-2015-8876.

Solutions

php-upgrade-5_6_28php-upgrade-7_0_13
Title
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