CVE-2016-7416: php

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2016-7416 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in php. EPSS estimates a 6.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 17-09-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

ext/intl/msgformat/msgformat_format.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 does not properly restrict the locale length provided to the Locale class in the ICU library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a MessageFormatter::formatMessage call with a long first argument.

• 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.