CVE-2016-9934

Publication date 4 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via crafted serialized data in a wddxPacket XML document, as demonstrated by a PDORow string.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.21
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26
php7.0	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=6045de69c7dedcba3eadf7c4bba424b19c81d00d
php7.0	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=6045de69c7dedcba3eadf7c4bba424b19c81d00d

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3196-1
PHP vulnerabilities
14 February 2017