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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-6296: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2016-6296: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/25/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

Integer signedness error in the simplestring_addn function in simplestring.c in xmlrpc-epi through 0.54.2, as used 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 (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long first argument to the PHP xmlrpc_encode_request function.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-php

References

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