CVE-2016-9935

Publication date 4 January 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The php_wddx_push_element function in ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.29 and 7.x before 7.0.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an empty boolean element in a wddxPacket XML document.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
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
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	Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php7.0	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=266ecb6d0a1ab5a37b4d652ca774a8adc4b06578 Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=6292fe84d314bdb8504968084666a683983f8044 Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=9b1430140a75698fd30b304d9bb488a2ce189750 Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=c89306ac52d9aff1eeec0441f1aff7e53c188234
php5	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=266ecb6d0a1ab5a37b4d652ca774a8adc4b06578 Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=b04d60626de25edb06b6ecd6d7f5090b3dac0ecd Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=c89306ac52d9aff1eeec0441f1aff7e53c188234

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

CVE-2016-9935

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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