CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-5772
Double free vulnerability in the php_wddx_process_data function in wddx.c in the WDDX 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 cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data that is mishandled in a wddx_deserialize call.
Severity
- EPSS
- 9.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-415
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- opensuse:leap
- opensuse:opensuse
- php:php
- suse:linux_enterprise_debuginfo
- suse:linux_enterprise_server
- suse:linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
References
- http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a44c89e8af7c2410f4bfc5e097be2a5d0639a60c?w=1
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00003.html