CVE-2016-6291 — 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 Buffer10 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
6.5%
top 8.84%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Php5PHPApple Macos Sierra
Timeline
PublishedJul 25
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.5.38, 5.6.x before 5.6.24, and 7.x before 7.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and memory corruption), obtain sensitive information from process memory, or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted JPEG image.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Ubuntuphp5/php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.19
▶NVDphp/php5.5.37+31
▶Appleapple/macos_sierra10.12

Patches

Patch: bugs.php.net ↗Patch: bugs.php.net ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-wf3c-8fp2-gqm4: The exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE function in ext/exif/exif↗2022-05-14
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OSV
php5, php7.0 vulnerabilities↗2016-08-02
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OSV
CVE-2016-6291: The exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE function in ext/exif/exif↗2016-07-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Apple
CVE-2016-6291: macOS Sierra 10.12↗2016-09-20
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Ubuntu
PHP vulnerabilities↗2016-08-02
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Red Hat
php: Out-of-bounds access in exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE↗2016-07-15
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6291 php: Out-of-bounds access in exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE↗2016-07-25
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6289 CVE-2016-6290 CVE-2016-6291 CVE-2016-6292 CVE-2016-6294 CVE-2016-6295 CVE-2016-6296 CVE-2016-6297 php: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2016-07-25
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-6292 php: Null pointer dereference in exif_process_user_comment↗2016-07-25
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CVE-2016-6291 — PHP vulnerability | cvebase