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…

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 or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large length value, as demonstrated by mishandling of an e-mail attachment by the imap PHP extension.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.6% · top 8.3% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• 75970 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• DSA-3344 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69923 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6dedeb40db13971af45276f80b5375030aa7e76f (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20150718 Re: CVE request: php - segmentation fault in Phar::convertToData; buffer overflow in phar_fix_filepath; (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 06:50 UTC.