CVE-2015-8616
Publication date 19 January 2016
Last updated 25 August 2025
Ubuntu priority
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Collator::sortWithSortKeys function in ext/intl/collator/collator_sort.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the relationships between a key buffer and a destroyed array.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| php5 | ||
| 14.04 LTS trusty |
Not affected
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Notes
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 |