CVE-2016-7478

Published: 11 January 2017

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.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	can't reproduce with 7.0.13, assumed fixed php5 needs CVE-2016-9137 to be applied

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
php5 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Released (5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26)
	trusty	Released (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.21)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
	yakkety	Does not exist
	Patches: upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=40e7baab3c90001beee4c8f0ed0ef79ad18ee0d6
php7.0 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Not vulnerable (7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
	yakkety	Not vulnerable (7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.10.1)
	Patches: upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=eca84946a4e7269d59ea2d79b5f42117de89ae74

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Bugs

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73093

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