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CVE-2015-2783
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 9.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2015-06-09 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
ext/phar/phar.c in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted length value in conjunction with crafted serialized data in a phar archive, related to the phar_parse_metadata and phar_parse_pharfile functions.
Affected products
- macOS: through 10.10.5
- PHP: through 5.4.39; 5.5.0, 5.5.0-alpha1, 5.5.0-alpha2, 5.5.0-alpha3, 5.5.0-alpha4, 5.5.0-alpha5 (+42)
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.1
- RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00005.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1186.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1187.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1218.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3280
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