CVE-2016-5769

Multiple integer overflows in mcrypt.c in the mcrypt extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted length value, related to the (1) mcrypt_generic and (2) mdecrypt_generic functions.

Score
CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical
Status
Modified - cve@mitre.org
Published
2016-08-07
Last modified
2024-08-06
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Affected products

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