Arbitrary Code Execution via Serialized Data in PHP SOAP Extension

Arbitrary Code Execution via Serialized Data in PHP SOAP Extension

CVE-2015-8835 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The make_http_soap_request function in ext/soap/php_http.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not properly retrieve keys, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, type confusion, and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data representing a numerically indexed _cookies array, related to the SoapClient::__call method in ext/soap/soap.c.

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