PHP Uncompressed Data Handling Vulnerability

CVE-2016-4342 · HIGH Severity

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

ext/phar/phar_object.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-length uncompressed data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) TAR, (2) ZIP, or (3) PHAR archive.

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