CVE-2016-5768 - Double Free

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 9.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Demo Examples

Double Free

CWE-415

Double Free

CWE-415

While contrived, this code should be exploitable on Linux distributions which do not ship with heap-chunk check summing turned on.


               
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Overview

Type

PHP

First reported 8 years ago

2016-08-07 10:59:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2018-01-05 02:31:00

Affected Software

PHP PHP

PHP 5.6.0 alpha1

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 alpha2

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 alpha3

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 alpha4

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 alpha5

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 beta1

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 beta2

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 beta3

5.6.0

PHP 5.6.0 beta4

5.6.0

PHP PHP 5.6.1

5.6.1

PHP 5.6.2

5.6.2

PHP 5.6.3

5.6.3

PHP 5.6.4

5.6.4

PHP 5.6.5

5.6.5

PHP 5.6.6

5.6.6

PHP 5.6.7

5.6.7

PHP PHP 5.6.8

5.6.8

PHP PHP 5.6.9

5.6.9

PHP PHP 5.6.10

5.6.10

PHP PHP 5.6.11

5.6.11

PHP PHP 5.6.12

5.6.12

PHP PHP 5.6.13

5.6.13

PHP 5.6.14

5.6.14

PHP 5.6.15

5.6.15

PHP 5.6.16

5.6.16

PHP 5.6.17

5.6.17

PHP 5.6.18

5.6.18

PHP 5.6.19

5.6.19

PHP 5.6.20

5.6.20

PHP 5.6.21

5.6.21

PHP 5.6.22

5.6.22

PHP 7.0.0

7.0.0

PHP 7.0.1

7.0.1

PHP 7.0.2

7.0.2

PHP 7.0.3

7.0.3

PHP 7.0.4

7.0.4

PHP 7.0.5

7.0.5

PHP 7.0.6

7.0.6

PHP 7.0.7

7.0.7

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