CVE-2015-8876

Publication date 21 May 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

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 does not validate certain Exception objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or trigger unintended method execution via crafted serialized data.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
15.10 wily Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.19
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.24

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Package Patch details
php5

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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