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CVE-2016-1904 (GCVE-0-2016-1904)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-01-19 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:10
VLAI
Summary
Multiple integer overflows in ext/standard/exec.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string to the (1) php_escape_shell_cmd or (2) php_escape_shell_arg function, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-01-07 00:00
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