vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-5768): PHP vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 2, 2016
Added
Aug 2, 2016
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.

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
Title
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