CVE-2016-5094 (GCVE-0-2016-5094)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-08-07 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:53
VLAI
Summary
Integer overflow in the php_html_entities function in ext/standard/html.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 by triggering a large output string from the htmlspecialchars function.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-05-26 00:00
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            "url": "https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/0da8b8b801f9276359262f1ef8274c7812d3dfda?w=1"
          },
          {
            "source": "af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108",
            "url": "https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731"
          }
        ],
        "sourceIdentifier": "cve@mitre.org",
        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
        "weaknesses": [
          {
            "description": [
              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "CWE-190"
              }
            ],
            "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
            "type": "Primary"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "redhat_vex": {
      "aggregate_severity": "Low",
      "current_release_date": "2026-06-28T11:02:14+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2016-5094",
      "id": "CVE-2016-5094",
      "initial_release_date": "2016-05-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "251",
      "product_status:known_affected": "80",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "30",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "php: Integer overflow in php_html_entities()",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2016/cve-2016-5094.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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