CVE-2015-4601

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

PHP before 5.6.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an unexpected data type, related to "type confusion" issues in (1) ext/soap/php_encoding.c, (2) ext/soap/php_http.c, and (3) ext/soap/soap.c, a different issue than CVE-2015-4600.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.6.6
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://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0c136a2abd49298b66acb0cad504f0f972f5bfe8
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1218.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/12
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75246
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032709
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0c136a2abd49298b66acb0cad504f0f972f5bfe8
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1218.html

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