CVE-2016-1903: php
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-1903 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) vulnerability in php. EPSS estimates a 7.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.6% 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 3 · Related 2Timeline
- 19-01-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 05-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The gdImageRotateInterpolated function in ext/gd/libgd/gd_interpolation.c in PHP before 5.5.31, 5.6.x before 5.6.17, and 7.x before 7.0.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a large bgd_color argument to the imagerotate function.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated9.1CriticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
7.81%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
95%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 7.81% 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 cause- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.
- CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized ActorThe product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Mageia1 product
- php< 5.6.17-1.mga5
Php1 product
- phpEOL≤ 5.5.30 | 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 | 5.6.13 | 5.6.14 | 5.6.15 | 5.6.16 | 7.0.0 | 7.0.1
Ubuntu1 product
- php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.16
3 vendors · 3 products
References
19 links- www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.461720Vendor AdvisoryX Refsource SLACKWARE