ubuntu · CVE-2016-5772

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:07:09 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5772 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (php5, php7.0), 10 status rows across 5 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial): released 5, DNE 4, ignored 1.

Description:

Double free vulnerability in the php_wddx_process_data function in wddx.c in the WDDX extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data that is mishandled in a wddx_deserialize call.

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