CVE-2015-2331
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.274 · 98 %ileDEEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Integer overflow in the _zip_cdir_new function in zip_dirent.c in libzip 0.11.2 and earlier, as used in the ZIP extension in PHP before 5.4.39, 5.5.x before 5.5.23, and 5.6.x before 5.6.7 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a ZIP archive that contains many entries, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
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affected products (103)
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advisories (1)
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- WID-SEC-W-2023-1281PHP: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2015-03-19csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in PHP ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode mit den Rechten des Dienstes auszuführen oder um einen Denial of Service Zustand hervorzurufen.
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references (46)
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- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=ef8fc4b53d92fbfcd8ef1abbd6f2f5fe2c4a11e5cnnvd
- http://hg.nih.at/libzip/rev/9f11d54f692ecnnvd
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpcnnvd
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69253cnnvd
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ef8fc4b53d92fbfcd8ef1abbd6f2f5fe2c4a11e5enisa_euvd
- http://hg.nih.at/libzip/rev/9f11d54f692eenisa_euvd
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/154266.htmlenisa_euvd
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