CVE-2016-5094

Publication date 30 May 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Integer overflow in the php_html_entities function in ext/standard/html.c in PHP before 5.5.36 and 5.6.x before 5.6.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large output string from the htmlspecialchars function.

Status

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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

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=0da8b8b801f9276359262f1ef8274c7812d3dfda

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.6 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3045-1
PHP vulnerabilities
2 August 2016