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CVE-2016-5095

Public on 2016-06-02
Modified on 2016-06-15
Description

Integer overflow in the php_escape_html_entities_ex 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 a FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS filter_var call. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-5094.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 php55 2016-06-02 17:47 ALAS-2016-707
Amazon Linux 1 php56 2016-06-02 17:44 ALAS-2016-706

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H