CVE-2016-4342 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in PHP

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-665 — Improper Initialization8 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.3
EPSS
5.6%
top 9.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Php5PHPOpensuse Leap
Timeline
PublishedMay 22
Latest updateMay 14

Description

ext/phar/phar_object.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-length uncompressed data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) TAR, (2) ZIP, or (3) PHAR archive.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Ubuntuphp5/php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.17
▶NVDphp/php5.5.31+21
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-x4x8-wmcm-3vhv: ext/phar/phar_object↗2022-05-14
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OSV
php5, php7.0 vulnerabilities↗2016-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2016-4342: ext/phar/phar_object↗2016-04-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
PHP vulnerabilities↗2016-05-24
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Red Hat
php: use of uninitialized pointer in PharFileInfo::getContent↗2016-01-12
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-4342 php: use of uninitialized pointer in PharFileInfo::getContent↗2016-02-08
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2554 CVE-2016-4342 php: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-02-08
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CVE-2016-4342 — PHP vulnerability | cvebase