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CVE-2016-2554

CRITICAL 9.8 CVSS 3.0
Published
May 16, 2016
Last modified
June 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified
Reported by
cve@mitre.org
Weakness
CWE-119
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in ext/phar/tar.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive.

Affected products and versions

  • PHP — Up to and including 5.5.31
  • PHP versions 5.6.0alpha1, 5.6.0alpha2, 5.6.0alpha3, 5.6.0alpha4, 5.6.0alpha5, 5.6.0beta1, 5.6.0beta2, 5.6.0beta3, 5.6.0beta4, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.6.3, 5.6.4, 5.6.5, 5.6.6, 5.6.7, 5.6.8, 5.6.9, 5.6.10, 5.6.11, 5.6.12, 5.6.13, 5.6.14, 5.6.15, 5.6.16, 5.6.17, 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2

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