PHP 5.6.x < 5.6.19 Denial of Service

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 9175

Synopsis

The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is affected by a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability.

Description

Versions of PHP 5.6.x prior to 5.6.19 are vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference flaw in the 'xsl_ext_function_php()' function in 'ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c'. This may potentially allow a remote attacker to cause a crash.

Solution

Upgrade to PHP version 5.6.19 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 9175

Family: Web Servers

Published: 4/8/2016

Updated: 3/6/2019

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:php:php

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/3/2016

Detections

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