CVE-2015-0232

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The exif_process_unicode function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.4.37, 5.5.x before 5.5.21, and 5.6.x before 5.6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer free and application crash) via crafted EXIF data in a JPEG image.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.4.36; 5.4.0, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.3, 5.4.4, 5.4.5 (+77)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0040.html
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=21bc7464f454fec18a9ec024c738f195602fee2a
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2fc178cf448d8e1b95d1314e47eeef610729e0df
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=55001de6d8c6ed2aada870a76de1e4b4558737bf
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00079.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1053.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html

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