CVE-2016-1904

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1904

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1904.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-1904

Published

2016-01-19T05:59:09Z

Modified

2026-08-07T14:48:16Z

Severity

7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

Multiple integer overflows in ext/standard/exec.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long string to the (1) php_escape_shell_cmd or (2) php_escape_shell_arg function, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/php/php-src

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/php/php-src

Events

Introduced

60fffd296abce5fc071f3c173c25a2696cf683c6

Last Affected

4054ec69da7631046f19d54ab06f09728a208b8b

Fixed

2871c70efaaaa0f102557a17c727fd4d5204dd4b

Database specific

Show details

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        "cpe:2.3:a:php:php:7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "7.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "7.0.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "7.0.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "7.0.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_STRING",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

7.*

7.0.0

7.0.1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-1904.json"

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vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-08-07T14:48:16Z"