CVE-2015-8873 (GCVE-0-2015-8873)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-16 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via recursive method calls.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69793 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2015-08-05 00:00
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