CVE-2015-8616 Use after free in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service via a use-after-free in the PHP intl extension's collator sorting function.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-8616?
CVE-2015-8616 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Php Php, published on 19 Jan 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Collator::sortWithSortKeys function in ext/intl/collator/collator_sort.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the relationships between a key buffer and a destroyed array.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8616?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Php Php.
How do I fix CVE-2015-8616?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-8616 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.
Is CVE-2015-8616 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8616 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Php Php
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c6vg-j5wc-w7gc.