Memory Corruption and Denial of Service Vulnerability in PHP's exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE Function

Memory Corruption and Denial of Service Vulnerability in PHP's exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE Function

CVE-2016-6291 · HIGH Severity

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

The exif_process_IFD_in_MAKERNOTE function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.5.38, 5.6.x before 5.6.24, and 7.x before 7.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access and memory corruption), obtain sensitive information from process memory, or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted JPEG image.

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