Arbitrary code execution in PHP-Nuke - CVE-2016-7411

 

Arbitrary code execution in PHP-Nuke - CVE-2016-7411

Published: September 19, 2016 / Updated: September 20, 2016


Vulnerability identifier: #VU529
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7411
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote or local user to cause arbitrary code execution on the target system.
The weakness is caused by deserialized object destruction that may result in memory corruption error and allows a malicious user to execute arbitrary code.
Successful explotation of the vulnerability may result in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Affected software

PHP-Nuke
Arch Linux
SUSE Linux
Slackware Linux
Fedora
php (Alpine package)
php

How to mitigate CVE-2016-7411


php (Alpine package) - update to 5.6.27-r0
php - addressed in versions 5.6.26-1.fc23, 5.6.26-1.fc24

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