CVE-2015-5590
Stack-based buffer overflow in the phar_fix_filepath function in ext/phar/phar.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
02 Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the phar_fix_filepath function in ext/phar/phar.c in PHP before 5.4.43, 5.5.x before 5.5.27, and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.63% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-01-19 02:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 06:50Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-07-17
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 591cb2df19bf27570ff94cefa564324b1e0e3c225946d7da673ff34e0414cb27
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com75970http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75970
- www.debian.orgDSA-3344http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3344
- bugs.php.nethttps://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69923
- www.php.nethttp://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- git.php.nethttp://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6dedeb40db13971af45276f80b5375030aa7e76f
- openwall.com[oss-security] 20150718 Re: CVE request: php - segmentation fault in Phar::convertToData; buffer overflow in phar_fix_filepath;http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/18/1
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- php5 Fixed in 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.13
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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