DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6296

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6296
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6296.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6296
Upstream
Published
2016-07-25T14:59:10Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:36Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Integer signedness error in the simplestringaddn function in simplestring.c in xmlrpc-epi through 0.54.2, as used 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 (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long first argument to the PHP xmlrpcencode_request function.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / xmlrpc-epi

Package

Name
xmlrpc-epi
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xmlrpc-epi?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.54.2-1.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / xmlrpc-epi

Package

Name
xmlrpc-epi
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xmlrpc-epi?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.54.2-1.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / xmlrpc-epi

Package

Name
xmlrpc-epi
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xmlrpc-epi?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.54.2-1.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / xmlrpc-epi

Package

Name
xmlrpc-epi
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/xmlrpc-epi?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.54.2-1.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}