CVE-2016-9137 (GCVE-0-2016-9137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-04 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:42
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Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CURLFile implementation in ext/curl/curl_file.c in PHP before 5.6.27 and 7.x before 7.0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted serialized data that is mishandled during __wakeup processing.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-10-18 00:00
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