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CVE-2016-7416 (GCVE-0-2016-7416)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-09-17 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:57
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Summary
ext/intl/msgformat/msgformat_format.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 does not properly restrict the locale length provided to the Locale class in the ICU library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a MessageFormatter::formatMessage call with a long first argument.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-09-15 00:00
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