CVE-2015-8873 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8873?

CVE-2015-8873 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 16 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via recursive method calls.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8873?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8873?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-8873 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8873 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2019-20787 Teeworlds before 0.7.4 has an integer overflow when computing a tilemap size. Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-8341 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-6438 Other in n/a Critical 9.8

All Opensuse Leap vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-r3m7-4pfv-6c7q, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8873.