CVE-2015-8880

Publication date 22 May 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Double free vulnerability in the format printer in PHP 7.x before 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to have an unspecified impact by triggering an error.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
php7.0	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

PEAR issues should go against php-pear as of xenial

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
php7.0	Upstream: https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=aa8cac578e22e65ceda63d3518d696ccfc920494

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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