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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-4542): PHP vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 21, 2016
Added
May 24, 2016
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The exif_process_IFD_TAG function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.5.35, 5.6.x before 5.6.21, and 7.x before 7.0.6 does not properly construct spprintf arguments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted header data.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php5ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php7-0ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cgiubuntu-upgrade-php5-cliubuntu-upgrade-php5-fpmubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-cgiubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-cliubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-fpm

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