CVE-2016-3141

Publication date 31 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in wddx.c in the WDDX extension in PHP before 5.5.33 and 5.6.x before 5.6.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a wddx_deserialize call on XML data containing a crafted var element.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 15.10 wily
Fixed 5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.16
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.22
php7.0 15.10 wily Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Notes

tyhicks

Fixes released upstream in 5.5.33, 5.6.19, 7.0.4

Patch details

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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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