High severity · published May 16, 2016
CVE-2015-8873
Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
7.5
CVSS
3.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via recursive method calls.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.8% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PH
PHP · PHP
before 5.4.44; 5.5.0 before 5.5.28; 5.6.0 before 5.6.12 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
42.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8873
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8873
git.php.net
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d2278143a08b7522de9471d0f014d7357c28fea
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00027.html
Vendor Advisory
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
Exploit
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69793
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