CVE-2015-8873

7.5 HIGH

Published: May 16, 2016 Modified: May 06, 2026

Description

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d2278143a08b7522de9471d0f014d7357c28fea

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00027.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69793

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Vendor Advisory

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d2278143a08b7522de9471d0f014d7357c28fea