Unvalidated Exception Objects in PHP Versions 5.4.44, 5.5.x, and 5.6.x

Unvalidated Exception Objects in PHP Versions 5.4.44, 5.5.x, and 5.6.x

CVE-2015-8876 · HIGH Severity

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

Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not validate certain Exception objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or trigger unintended method execution via crafted serialized data.

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