CVE-2016-5768

Description

Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.

References

https://support.apple.com/HT207170

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91396

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/23/4

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3618

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2598.html

http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00003.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html

http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/5b597a2e5b28e2d5a52fc1be13f425f08f47cb62?w=1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3