CVE-2016-5773

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

php_zip.c in the zip extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 improperly interacts with the unserialize implementation and garbage collection, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via crafted serialized data containing a ZipArchive object.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.5.36; 5.6.0-alpha1, 5.6.0-alpha2, 5.6.0-alpha3, 5.6.0-alpha4, 5.6.0-alpha5, 5.6.0-beta1 (+34)

References

http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/f6aef68089221c5ea047d4a74224ee3deead99a6?w=1
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3618
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/23/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91397
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72434
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
https://support.apple.com/HT207170

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