CVE Catalog

CVE-2015-8879

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

The odbc_bindcols function in PHP before 5.6.12 mishandles driver behavior for SQL_WVARCHAR columns, potentially leading to application crashes.

Risk Assessment

Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service, impacting the availability of applications using Microsoft SQL Server.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade PHP to version 5.6.12 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

The odbc_bindcols function in ext/odbc/php_odbc.c in PHP before 5.6.12 mishandles driver behavior for SQL_WVARCHAR columns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging use of the odbc_fetch_array function to access a certain type of Microsoft SQL Server table.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS