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CVE-2015-8873

Published: 16 May 2016

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
recursion through unserializing exceptions

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
php5
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise
Released (5.3.10-1ubuntu3.24)
trusty
Released (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.19)
upstream
Released (5.6.12+dfsg-1)
wily Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Does not exist

Patches:
upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=4d2278143a08b7522de9471d0f014d7357c28fea
upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=f1acac154ac7684bc908fc2ad8962372c9d4e312
upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=0a21b5d97039945a9e5dc683f2f5e8b379f07ada
upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=da5321013c4dbac0faac12f78b28f662a91b4bc1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H