CVE-2016-5096 (GCVE-0-2016-5096)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-07 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Integer overflow in the fread function in ext/standard/file.c in PHP before 5.5.36 and 5.6.x before 5.6.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large integer in the second argument.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/26/3 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3602 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/publ… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90861 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72114 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/abd159cce48… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2016-05-26 00:00
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"title": "php: Integer underflow causing arbitrary null write in fread/gzread",
"url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-5096.json",
"version": "3"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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