CVE-2015-8873: opensuse leap Improper Input Validation
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2015-8873 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in opensuse leap. EPSS estimates a 3.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 5 · Related 4Timeline
- 16-05-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
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.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 2 sources · 3 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
3.78%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
90%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 3.78% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugs.php.net)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Opensuse1 product
- leapEOL42.1
Php1 product
- php< 5.4.44 | ≥ 5.5.0, < 5.5.28 | ≥ 5.6.0, < 5.6.12
Ubuntu1 product
- php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.19
3 vendors · 3 products
References
8 links- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00027.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource SUSEMailing ListThird Party Advisory