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CVE-2015-4021

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · CWE-189
5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

The phar_parse_tarfile function in ext/phar/tar.c in PHP before 5.4.41, 5.5.x before 5.5.25, and 5.6.x before 5.6.9 does not verify that the first character of a filename is different from the \0 character, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow and memory corruption) via a crafted entry in a tar archive.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)20%

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products we track (1)

PHP

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php ↗