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Centos Linux: CVE-2016-5768: Moderate: php security and bug fix update (CESA-2016:2598)

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Centos Linux: CVE-2016-5768: Moderate: php security and bug fix update (CESA-2016:2598)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/07/2016
Created
06/27/2020
Added
06/23/2020
Modified
06/23/2020

Description

Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring 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 execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-php
  • centos-upgrade-php-bcmath
  • centos-upgrade-php-cli
  • centos-upgrade-php-common
  • centos-upgrade-php-dba
  • centos-upgrade-php-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-php-devel
  • centos-upgrade-php-embedded
  • centos-upgrade-php-enchant
  • centos-upgrade-php-fpm
  • centos-upgrade-php-gd
  • centos-upgrade-php-intl
  • centos-upgrade-php-ldap
  • centos-upgrade-php-mbstring
  • centos-upgrade-php-mysql
  • centos-upgrade-php-mysqlnd
  • centos-upgrade-php-odbc
  • centos-upgrade-php-pdo
  • centos-upgrade-php-pgsql
  • centos-upgrade-php-process
  • centos-upgrade-php-pspell
  • centos-upgrade-php-recode
  • centos-upgrade-php-snmp
  • centos-upgrade-php-soap
  • centos-upgrade-php-xml
  • centos-upgrade-php-xmlrpc

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