CVE-2016-5769
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.0 · EPSS 8.4% (pctl 95)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
Multiple integer overflows in mcrypt.c in the mcrypt extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted length value, related to the (1) mcrypt_generic and (2) mdecrypt_generic functions.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 8.36% — more likely to be exploited than 95% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-190 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2016-08-07 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| php | php |
References
- http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6c5211a0cef0cc2854eaa387e0eb036e012904d0?w=1
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00003.html
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3618
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/23/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91399
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72455
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- https://support.apple.com/HT207170
- http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6c5211a0cef0cc2854eaa387e0eb036e012904d0?w=1
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00025.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00003.html
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
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