CVE-2016-4540: fedoraproject fedora
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-4540 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in fedoraproject fedora. EPSS estimates a 6.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.3% 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 7 · Related 4Timeline
- 22-05-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The grapheme_stripos function in ext/intl/grapheme/grapheme_string.c in PHP before 5.5.35, 5.6.x before 5.6.21, and 7.x before 7.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a negative offset.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated9.8CriticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
6.06%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
93%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 6.06% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugs.php.net)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu2 products
- php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.17
- php7.0< 7.0.4-7ubuntu2.1
Fedoraproject1 product
- fedoraEOL24
Opensuse1 product
- leapEOL42.1
Php1 product
- phpEOL≤ 5.5.34 | 5.6.0 | 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 | 5.6.17 | 5.6.18 | 5.6.19 | 5.6.20 | 7.0.0 | 7.0.1 | 7.0.2 | 7.0.3 | 7.0.4 | 7.0.5
4 vendors · 5 products
References
18 linksShow all 18 references
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183736.htmlVendor AdvisoryX Refsource FEDORA