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CVE-2015-8876 (GCVE-0-2015-8876)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-22 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
Summary
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 does not validate certain Exception objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or trigger unintended method execution via crafted serialized data.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70121 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2015-08-05 00:00
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