PHP 5.6.x < 5.6.19 Denial of Service

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 9175

Synopsis

The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is affected by a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability.

Description

Versions of PHP 5.6.x prior to 5.6.19 are vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the 'xsl_ext_function_php()' function in 'ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c'. This may potentially allow a remote attacker to cause a crash.

Solution

Upgrade to PHP version 5.6.19 or later.

See Also

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.33

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.19

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 9175

Family: Web Servers

Published: 4/8/2016

Updated: 3/6/2019

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:php:php

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2016