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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-3141): PHP regression

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-3141): PHP regression

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/31/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/21/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cgi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cli
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-fpm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-gd
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-mysqlnd
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-snmp

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