CVE-2016-5768

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-415 Double Free

Publication date:

07/08/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

7.50

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::		5.5.36 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha4::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha5::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:beta1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:beta2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:beta3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:beta4::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.5:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::		5.5.36 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha4::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:alpha5::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:beta1::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:beta2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:beta3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:beta4::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.5:::::::*

CVE-2016-5768

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools