CVE-2015-8873

HIGH

PHP < 5.4.44 - Denial of Service via Recursive Method Calls

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via recursive method calls.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-06/msg00027.html
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69793
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0279
EPSS Percentile 86.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
opensuse/leap 42.1
php/php < 5.4.44
Published May 16, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026