CVE-2015-4116

Publication date 16 May 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Use-after-free vulnerability in the spl_ptr_heap_insert function in ext/spl/spl_heap.c in PHP before 5.5.27 and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a failed SplMinHeap::compare operation.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.19
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.24

Notes

sbeattie

requires malformed php code, which is not usually part of a threat model (accepting and executing random php statements)

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=1cbd25ca15383394ffa9ee8601c5de4c0f2f90e1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3045-1
PHP vulnerabilities
2 August 2016