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CVE-2015-8873

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-05-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via recursive method calls.

Affected products

• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• PHP: before 5.4.44; from 5.5.0 before 5.5.28; from 5.6.0 before 5.6.12 — fixed in 5.4.44, 5.5.28, 5.6.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 5.4.44, 5.5.28, 5.6.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d2278143a08b7522de9471d0f014d7357c28fea
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00027.html
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69793
• http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d2278143a08b7522de9471d0f014d7357c28fea
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00027.html
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69793

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