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CVE-2015-8980

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The plural form formula in ngettext family of calls in php-gettext before 1.0.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 24
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1, 42.2
• Php-Gettext Project Php-Gettext: before 1.0.12 — fixed in 1.0.12
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Php-Gettext Project Php-Gettext 1.0.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00015.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Aug/76
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95754
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367462
• https://launchpad.net/php-gettext/trunk/1.0.12
• https://lwn.net/Alerts/708838/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00015.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Aug/76
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95754
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367462

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