CVE-2016-5768

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5768
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5768.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5768
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-08-07T10:59:16.007Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:46:55.003813Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Double free vulnerability in the phpmbregexeregreplaceexec 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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/php/php-src

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/php/php-src
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
5b597a2e5b28e2d5a52fc1be13f425f08f47cb62

Affected versions

Other

NEWS
NEWS-cvs2svn

php-5.*

php-5.3.23RC1
php-5.3.29
php-5.3.29RC1
php-5.4.30RC1
php-5.4.32RC1
php-5.4.4RC2
php-5.5.24RC1

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "digest": {
            "length": 4778.0,
            "function_hash": "80211644445470177327357614177420692722"
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "ext/mbstring/php_mbregex.c",
            "function": "_php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/5b597a2e5b28e2d5a52fc1be13f425f08f47cb62",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "id": "CVE-2016-5768-62f748d5",
        "signature_version": "v1"
    }
]