Integer overflow in PHP - CVE-2016-10159

 

Integer overflow in PHP - CVE-2016-10159

Published: May 21, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12906
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10159
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the phar_parse_pharfile function in ext/phar/phar.c due to integer overflow. A remote attacker can submit a truncated manifest entry in a PHAR archive and cause the service to crash.

Affected software

PHP
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
php5 (Ubuntu package)
php (Debian package)

How to mitigate CVE-2016-10159

Update to version 5.6.30 or 7.0.15.

php5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26, 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.21
php (Debian package) - update to 5.6.30+dfsg-0+deb8u1

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