CVE-2016-6296
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 13.0%xmlrpc-epi - security update
Published: 7/25/2016Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
Integer signedness error in the simplestring_addn function in simplestring.c in xmlrpc-epi through 0.54.2, as used in PHP before 5.5.38, 5.6.x before 5.6.24, and 7.x before 7.0.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long first argument to the PHP xmlrpc_encode_request function.
Affected packages (3)
- Debian/xmlrpc-epifrom 0, < 0.54.2-1.2
- Debian/xmlrpc-epifrom 0, < 0.54.2-1.1+deb8u1
- Debian/xmlrpc-epifrom 0, < 0.54.2-1+deb7u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |