CVE-2016-5768

Publication date 24 June 2016

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.19
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected
php7.0	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5b597a2e5b28e2d5a52fc1be13f425f08f47cb62
php7.0	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=5b597a2e5b28e2d5a52fc1be13f425f08f47cb62

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3045-1
PHP vulnerabilities
2 August 2016