CVE-2016-6870
Out-of-bounds write in the (1) mb_detect_encoding, (2) mb_send_mail, and (3) mb_detect_order functions in Facebook HHVM before 3.15.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.
02 Description
Out-of-bounds write in the (1) mb_detect_encoding, (2) mb_send_mail, and (3) mb_detect_order functions in Facebook HHVM before 3.15.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via unknown vectors.
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
- 2.21% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 82.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 9.8 (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:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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
- 2017-02-17 17:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 01:43Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-08-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4aa0255dcbdeff65d456ada751951a5e05b4ae5fcb9daa8ec821e1bb15e57ed4
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160811 CVE Requests Facebook HHVMhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/11/1
- github.comhttps://github.com/facebook/hhvm/commit/365abe807cab2d60dc9ec307292a06181f77a9c2
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160818 Re: CVE Requests Facebook HHVMhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/19/1
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- hhvm No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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