CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-6838

7.5 HIGH Published 2016-05-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-05-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The xsl_ext_function_php function in ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c in PHP before 5.4.45, 5.5.x before 5.5.29, and 5.6.x before 5.6.13, when libxml2 before 2.9.2 is used, does not consider the possibility of a NULL valuePop return value before proceeding with a free operation after the principal argument loop, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-6837.

Affected configurations

• php php 5.6.0 • php php 5.6.1 • php php 5.6.2 • php php 5.6.3 • php php 5.6.4 • php php 5.6.5 • php php 5.6.6 • php php 5.6.7 • php php 5.6.8 • php php 5.6.9 • php php 5.6.10 • php php 5.6.11 • php php 5.6.12 • xmlsoft libxml2 (<= 2.9.1) • php php 5.5.0 • php php 5.5.1 • php php 5.5.2 • php php 5.5.3 • php php 5.5.4 • php php 5.5.5 • php php 5.5.6 • php php 5.5.7 • php php 5.5.8 • php php 5.5.9 • php php 5.5.10 • php php 5.5.11 • php php 5.5.12 • php php 5.5.13 • php php 5.5.14 • php php 5.5.15 • php php 5.5.16 • php php 5.5.17 • php php 5.5.18 • php php 5.5.19 • php php 5.5.20 • php php 5.5.21 • php php 5.5.22 • php php 5.5.23 • php php 5.5.24 • php php 5.5.25 • php php 5.5.26 • php php 5.5.27 • php php 5.5.28 • php php (<= 5.4.44)

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