KLA10927 Denial of service vulnerabilities in PHP

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in PHP before 5.6.28 and PHP 7.x before 7.0.13. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial of service. Other unspecified impacts are also possible.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. NULL pointer dereference in ext/wddx/wddx.c can be exploited remotely via specially designed data in a wddxPacket XML document to cause a denial of service;
2. Stack consumption vulnerability in the GD Graphics Library (libgd) can be exploited remotely via specially designed imagefilltoborder call which forces usage of a negative color value to cause a denial of service;
3. Integer signedness error in the GD Graphics Library (libgd) can be exploited remotely via specially designed imagecreatefromstring call to cause a denial of service.

Technical details

Vulnerability (2) occurs in the gdImageFillToBorder function in gd.c file from the GD Graphics Library.

Vulnerability (3) occurs in the dynamicGetbuf function in gd_io_dp.c from the GD Graphics Library.

Original advisories

PHP 5 ChangeLog

PHP 7 ChangeLog

Related products

PHP

CVE list

CVE-2016-8670 critical

CVE-2016-9934 warning

CVE-2016-9933 warning

Solution

Update to the latest versions

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Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

• SB

Security bypass. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to performing actions restricted by current security settings.

Affected Products

• PHP before 5.6.28PHP 7.x before 7.0.13