CVE-2016-7413 - Use After Free

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Use-after-free vulnerability in the wddx_stack_destroy function in ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a wddxPacket XML document that lacks an end-tag for a recordset field element, leading to mishandling in a wddx_deserialize call.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the wddx_stack_destroy function in ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a wddxPacket XML document that lacks an end-tag for a recordset field element, leading to mishandling in a wddx_deserialize call.

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

Use After Free

CWE-416

The following example demonstrates the weakness.


               
}
free(buf3R2);

Use After Free

CWE-416

The following code illustrates a use after free error:


               
}
free(ptr);
logError("operation aborted before commit", ptr);

When an error occurs, the pointer is immediately freed. However, this pointer is later incorrectly used in the logError function.

Overview

Type

PHP

First reported 8 years ago

2016-09-17 21:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-05-04 01:29:00

Affected Software

PHP PHP

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

PHP 7.0.8

7.0.8

PHP 7.0.9

7.0.9

PHP 7.0.10

7.0.10

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