Critical severity · published Mar 31, 2016
CVE-2016-3141
Use-after-free vulnerability in wddx.c in the WDDX extension in PHP before 5.5.33 and 5.6.x before 5.6.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption…
9.8
CVSS
36%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in wddx.c in the WDDX extension in PHP before 5.5.33 and 5.6.x before 5.6.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a wddx_deserialize call on XML data containing a crafted var element.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)36.0% · higher than 98% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PH
PHP · PHP
through 5.5.32; 5.6.0; 5.6.1; 5.6.2; 5.6.3; 5.6.4; +14 more · source: NVD
MO
Mac OS X · Apple
through 10.11.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3141
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3141
git.php.net
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b1bd4119bcafab6f9a8f84d92cd65eec3afeface
lists.apple.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/May/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00052.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00056.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00057.html
lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00058.html
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