Select your cookie preferences

We use cookies and similar tools to enhance your experience, provide our services, deliver relevant advertising, and make improvements. Approved third parties also use these tools to help us deliver advertising and provide certain site features.

CVE-2016-7416

Public on 2016-09-17
Modified on 2016-10-12
Description

ext/intl/msgformat/msgformat_format.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 does not properly restrict the locale length provided to the Locale class in the ICU library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a MessageFormatter::formatMessage call with a long first argument.

Severity
Medium
See what this means
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
See breakdown
Continue reading

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 php56 2016-10-12 17:00 ALAS-2016-753
Amazon Linux 1 php70 2016-10-12 17:00 ALAS-2016-754

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H