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CVE-2016-5096

HIGH severity · CVSS 8.6 · Integer overflow
8.6CVSS HIGH

Summary

Integer overflow in the fread function in ext/standard/file.c in PHP before 5.5.36 and 5.6.x before 5.6.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large integer in the second argument.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactLow
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

PHP

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

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