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CVE-2016-10159

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the phar_parse_pharfile function in ext/phar/phar.c in PHP before 5.6.30 and 7.0.x before 7.0.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or application crash) via a truncated manifest entry in a PHAR archive.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0
• PHP: through 5.6.29; from 7.0.0 before 7.0.15; 7.1.0 — fixed in 7.0.15

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 7.0.15. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3783
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95774
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037659
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1296
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73764
• https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/ca46d0acbce55019b970fcd4c1e8a10edfdded93
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-29
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/
• https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-04
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

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