CVE-2016-9137

Publication date 4 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CURLFile implementation in ext/curl/curl_file.c in PHP before 5.6.27 and 7.x before 7.0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted serialized data that is mishandled during __wakeup processing.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

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	Not affected
php7.0	16.10 yakkety	Fixed 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.10.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

should not unserialize untrusted data

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=0e6fe3a4c96be2d3e88389a5776f878021b4c59f
php7.0	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=f42cbd749cde1f91274c1d03df9024baba141a8f

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3211-1
PHP vulnerabilities
23 February 2017

USN-3196-1
PHP vulnerabilities
14 February 2017