SB2016051609 - Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP 

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SB2016051609 - Multiple vulnerabilities in PHP

Published: May 16, 2016 Updated: June 8, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2016051609
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8835)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in make_http_soap_request() function within the "ext/soap/php_http.c" PHP SOAP extension when retrieving keys. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted serialized data that represent a numerically indexed _cookies array, related to the SoapClient::__call method in ext/soap/soap.c and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8873)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via recursive method calls.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References