CVE-2015-8874 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8874?

CVE-2015-8874 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 GD in PHP before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted imagefilltoborder call.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8874?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8874?

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-2015-8874 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8874 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2015-8874, DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8874, DLA-482-1, GHSA-q9v4-889r-h8qj, MGASA-2016-0203, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8874.