CVE-2016-5772

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5772
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5772.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5772
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-08-07T10:59:20Z
Modified
2025-10-15T08:18:22.113830Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/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 phpwddxprocessdata function in wddx.c in the WDDX 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 cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data that is mishandled in a wddxdeserialize call.

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
a44c89e8af7c2410f4bfc5e097be2a5d0639a60c

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

[
    {
        "id": "CVE-2016-5772-bf04f18e",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "file": "ext/wddx/wddx.c",
            "function": "php_wddx_process_data"
        },
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "180570257826570885917371117402157294106",
            "length": 2110.0
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a44c89e8af7c2410f4bfc5e097be2a5d0639a60c"
    },
    {
        "id": "CVE-2016-5772-fe4b66ca",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
            "file": "ext/wddx/wddx.c"
        },
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "138371237491998008842515301943039341093",
                "5438853636735337843492742048264760460",
                "327287158167850452439701417552007583568",
                "78609767112690709860219252615091440765",
                "206516277081509952429337499612038618064",
                "256212817879242093001682295899415213645",
                "34110307404906790365435565495275501781",
                "37364056837223290377158685987933560788"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a44c89e8af7c2410f4bfc5e097be2a5d0639a60c"
    }
]