CVE-2016-1903

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The gdImageRotateInterpolated function in ext/gd/libgd/gd_interpolation.c in PHP before 5.5.31, 5.6.x before 5.6.17, and 7.x before 7.0.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a large bgd_color argument to the imagerotate function.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.5.30; 5.6.0-alpha1, 5.6.0-alpha2, 5.6.0-alpha3, 5.6.0-alpha4, 5.6.0-alpha5, 5.6.0-beta1 (+21)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00099.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00037.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/8
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79916
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034608
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.461720
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-2
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70976

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