CVE-2016-4342 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-4342?

CVE-2016-4342 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Opensuse Leap, published on 22 May 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

ext/phar/phar_object.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-length uncompressed data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) TAR, (2) ZIP, or (3) PHAR archive.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-4342?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Opensuse Leap, Php Php.

How do I fix CVE-2016-4342?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-4342 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-4342 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2017-14804 package builds could use directory traversal to write outside of target area Critical 9.9
• 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
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Also known as GHSA-x4x8-wmcm-3vhv, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4342.