CVE-2016-5772

CWE-415CWE-416 — Use After Free9 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
15.9%
top 5.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
7
PHP PHPDebian Debian LinuxOpensuse Leap+4 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 7
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Double free vulnerability in the php_wddx_process_data function in wddx.c in the WDDX 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 cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data that is mishandled in a wddx_deserialize call.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages8 packages

▶NVDphp/php5.6.0 — 5.6.23+2
▶Ubuntuphp5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.19
▶Ubuntuphp7.0< 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: php.net ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-v2qq-h2h4-pjqv: Double free vulnerability in the php_wddx_process_data function in wddx↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2016-5772: Double free vulnerability in the php_wddx_process_data function in wddx↗2016-08-07
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OSV
CVE-2016-5772: Double free vulnerability in the php_wddx_process_data function in wddx↗2016-06-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Apple
CVE-2016-5772: macOS Sierra 10.12↗2016-09-20
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Ubuntu
PHP vulnerabilities↗2016-08-02
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Red Hat
php: Double Free Corruption in wddx_deserialize↗2016-06-23
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5772 php: Double Free Corruption in wddx_deserialize↗2016-06-29
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-5766 CVE-2016-5767 CVE-2016-5768 CVE-2016-5769 CVE-2016-5770 CVE-2016-5771 CVE-2016-5772 CVE-2016-5773 php: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-06-29
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