Denial of Service and Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in PHP's php_wddx_push_element Function

Denial of Service and Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability in PHP's php_wddx_push_element Function

CVE-2016-7418 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The php_wddx_push_element function in ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer access and out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an incorrect boolean element in a wddxPacket XML document, leading to mishandling in a wddx_deserialize call.

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