CVE-2016-2554

Publication date 25 February 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in ext/phar/tar.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive.

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

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=07c7df68bd68bbe706371fccc77c814ebb335d9e

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2952-1
PHP vulnerabilities
21 April 2016