CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-7416

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11, there is a vulnerability in ext/intl/msgformat/msgformat_format.c that does not properly restrict the locale length provided to the Locale class in the ICU library. This can lead to application crashes or other unspecified impacts.

Risk Assessment

Remote attackers can cause application crashes, leading to service downtime. There is also a risk of unspecified side effects.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update PHP to version 5.6.26 or 7.0.11 and later to mitigate this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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