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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6296): xmlrpc-epi vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-6296): xmlrpc-epi vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/25/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/02/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libapache2-mod-php7-0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libxmlrpc-epi0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cgi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-cli
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php5-fpm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-cgi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-cli
  • ubuntu-upgrade-php7-0-fpm

References

  • USN-3045-1
  • USN-3059-1
  • APPLE-SA-2016-09-20
  • RHSA-2016:2750
  • DLA-569-1
  • DLA-628-1
  • DSA-3631
  • 92095
  • 1036430
  • GLSA-201611-22
  • CVE-2016-6296
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