PHP Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2016-6296 - Vulnerability Database

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PHP Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2016-6296

Critical

Reference: CVE-2016-6296

NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6296

Title: PHP Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability

Overview:

Integer signedness error in the simplestring_addn function in simplestring.c in xmlrpc-epi through 0.54.2 as used in PHP before 5.5.38 5.6.x before 5.6.24 and 7.x before 7.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long first argument to the PHP xmlrpc_encode_request function.