CVE-2015-8835

Publication date 31 December 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

The make_http_soap_request function in ext/soap/php_http.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not properly retrieve keys, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, type confusion, and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data representing a numerically indexed _cookies array, related to the SoapClient::__call method in ext/soap/soap.c.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	15.10 wily	Fixed 5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.16
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.22
php7.0	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

upstream fixed in 5.6.12, 5.5.28, and 5.4.44

mdeslaur

This CVE is for the first part of the fix, and the first part listed in the bug. See CVE-2016-3185 for the second part.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=c96d08b27226193dd51f2b50e84272235c6aaa69

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H