CVE-2015-8616 (GCVE-0-2015-8616)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-19 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20
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Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Collator::sortWithSortKeys function in ext/intl/collator/collator_sort.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the relationships between a key buffer and a destroyed array.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71020 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2015-12-07 00:00
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