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CVE-2016-2554
Stack-based buffer overflow in ext/phar/tar.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 allows remote attackers to…
Critical9.8EPSS 11.0%
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Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in ext/phar/tar.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 11.0% · top 4.1% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (10)
- USN-2952-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:1173 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2750 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1166 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2952-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71488 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1145 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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)
Record last updated .