CVE-2015-2783
MEDIUMEPSS 95th pctlDescription
ext/phar/phar.c in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted length value in conjunction with crafted serialized data in a phar archive, related to the phar_parse_metadata and phar_parse_pharfile functions.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00005.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1186.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1187.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1218.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3280
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74239
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032146
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2572-1
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69324
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-10
- https://support.apple.com/HT205267
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031
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