CVE-2015-0273

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 43.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in ext/date/php_date.c in PHP before 5.4.38, 5.5.x before 5.5.22, and 5.6.x before 5.6.6 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized input containing a (1) R or (2) r type specifier in (a) DateTimeZone data handled by the php_date_timezone_initialize_from_hash function or (b) DateTime data handled by the php_date_initialize_from_hash function.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.4.37; 5.5.0, 5.5.0-alpha1, 5.5.0-alpha2, 5.5.0-alpha3, 5.5.0-alpha4, 5.5.0-alpha5 (+42)

References

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=71335e6ebabc1b12c057d8017fd811892ecdfd24
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Oct/msg00005.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143748090628601&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1053.html

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