CVE-2015-6838

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 16 May 2016, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 07:36

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
31/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
3.8% LOW
4% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

16 May 2016, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 07:36
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The xsl_ext_function_php function in ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c in PHP before 5.4.45, 5.5.x before 5.5.29, and 5.6.x before 5.6.13, when libxml2 before 2.9.2 is used, does not consider the possibility of a NULL valuePop return value before proceeding with a free operation after the principal argument loop, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-6837.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0HIGHScore: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0MEDIUMScore: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 3.80% Percentile: 88%

Affected Systems

  • UnknownPHP

    5.6.0:alpha1 | 5.6.0:alpha2 | 5.6.0:alpha3 | 5.6.0:alpha4 | 5.6.0:alpha5 | 5.6.0:beta1 | 5.6.0:beta2 | 5.6.0:beta3 | 5.6.0:beta4 | 5.6.1 | 5.6.2 | 5.6.3 | 5.6.4 | 5.6.5 | 5.6.6 | 5.6.7 | 5.6.8 | 5.6.9 | 5.6.10 | 5.6.11 | 5.6.12 | 5.5.0 | 5.5.0:alpha1 | 5.5.0:alpha2 | 5.5.0:alpha3 | 5.5.0:alpha4 | 5.5.0:alpha5 | 5.5.0:alpha6 | 5.5.0:beta1 | 5.5.0:beta2 | 5.5.0:beta3 | 5.5.0:beta4 | 5.5.0:rc1 | 5.5.0:rc2 | 5.5.1 | 5.5.2 | 5.5.3 | 5.5.4 | 5.5.5 | 5.5.6 | 5.5.7 | 5.5.8 | 5.5.9 | 5.5.10 | 5.5.11 | 5.5.12 | 5.5.13 | 5.5.14 | 5.5.15 | 5.5.16 | 5.5.17 | 5.5.18 | 5.5.19 | 5.5.20 | 5.5.21 | 5.5.22 | 5.5.23 | 5.5.24 | 5.5.25 | 5.5.26 | 5.5.27 | 5.5.28 | ≤ 5.4.44

  • xmlsoftlibxml2

    ≤ 2.9.1

References (6)