Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-4116

CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

opensuse

php

critical

nessus

NVD

Published: 2016-05-16

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the spl_ptr_heap_insert function in ext/spl/spl_heap.c in PHP before 5.5.27 and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a failed SplMinHeap::compare operation.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
OS	Opensuse Opensuse Leap 42.1	1
Application	Php PHP PHP 5.6.1 PHP PHP 5.6.5 PHP PHP 5.6.0 PHP PHP 5.6.4 PHP PHP 5.6.6 PHP PHP 5.6.2 PHP PHP 5.6.10 PHP PHP 5.6.7 PHP PHP - PHP PHP 0.1 PHP PHP 0.1.1 PHP PHP 0.2 PHP PHP 0.2.0 PHP PHP 0.2.1 PHP PHP 0.2.2 PHP PHP 0.2.3 PHP PHP 0.2.4 PHP PHP 0.3 PHP PHP 0.4 PHP PHP 0.5 PHP PHP 0.5.2 PHP PHP 0.5.3 PHP PHP 0.6 PHP PHP 0.7 PHP PHP 0.9 PHP PHP 0.9.0 PHP PHP 0.9.1 PHP PHP 0.9.2 PHP PHP 0.9.3 PHP PHP 0.9.4 PHP PHP 0.10 PHP PHP 0.11 PHP PHP 0.90 PHP PHP 0.91 PHP PHP 1.0 PHP PHP 1.0.0 PHP PHP 1.0.1 PHP PHP 1.0.2 PHP PHP 1.0.3 PHP PHP 1.0.4 PHP PHP 1.1 PHP PHP 1.1.0 PHP PHP 1.1.1 PHP PHP 1.2 PHP PHP 1.2.0 PHP PHP 1.2.1 PHP PHP 1.2.2 PHP PHP 1.2.3 PHP PHP 1.2.4 PHP PHP 1.2.5 PHP PHP 1.3 PHP PHP 1.3.1 PHP PHP 1.3.5 PHP PHP 1.4 PHP PHP 1.5 PHP PHP 2.0 PHP PHP 2.0.0 PHP PHP 2.0.1 PHP PHP 2.0.2 PHP PHP 2.0B10 PHP PHP 3.0 PHP PHP 3.0.1 PHP PHP 3.0.2 PHP PHP 3.0.3 PHP PHP 3.0.4 PHP PHP 3.0.5 PHP PHP 3.0.6 PHP PHP 3.0.7 PHP PHP 3.0.8 PHP PHP 3.0.9 PHP PHP 3.0.10 PHP PHP 3.0.11 PHP PHP 3.0.12 PHP PHP 3.0.13 PHP PHP 3.0.14 PHP PHP 3.0.15 PHP PHP 3.0.16 PHP PHP 3.0.17 PHP PHP 3.0.18 PHP PHP 4.0 PHP PHP 4.0.0 PHP PHP 4.0.1 PHP PHP 4.0.2 PHP PHP 4.0.3 PHP PHP 4.0.4 PHP PHP 4.0.5 PHP PHP 4.0.6 PHP PHP 4.0.7 PHP PHP 4.1.0 PHP PHP 4.1.1 PHP PHP 4.1.2 PHP PHP 4.1.3 PHP PHP 4.2 PHP PHP 4.2.0 PHP PHP 4.2.1 PHP PHP 4.2.2 PHP PHP 4.2.3 PHP PHP 4.2.4 PHP PHP 4.3 PHP PHP 4.3.0 PHP PHP 4.3.1 PHP PHP 4.3.2 PHP PHP 4.3.3 PHP PHP 4.3.4 PHP PHP 4.3.5 PHP PHP 4.3.6 PHP PHP 4.3.7 PHP PHP 4.3.8 PHP PHP 4.3.9 PHP PHP 4.3.10 PHP PHP 4.3.11 PHP PHP 4.4.0 PHP PHP 4.4.1 PHP PHP 4.4.2 PHP PHP 4.4.3 PHP PHP 4.4.4 PHP PHP 4.4.5 PHP PHP 4.4.6 PHP PHP 4.4.7 PHP PHP 4.4.8 PHP PHP 4.4.9 PHP PHP 5.0.0 PHP PHP 5.0.1 PHP PHP 5.0.2 PHP PHP 5.0.3 PHP PHP 5.0.4 PHP PHP 5.0.5 PHP PHP 5.1 PHP PHP 5.1.0 PHP PHP 5.1.1 PHP PHP 5.1.2 PHP PHP 5.1.3 PHP PHP 5.1.4 PHP PHP 5.1.5 PHP PHP 5.1.6 PHP PHP 5.2.0 PHP PHP 5.2.1 PHP PHP 5.2.2 PHP PHP 5.2.3 PHP PHP 5.2.4 PHP PHP 5.2.5 PHP PHP 5.2.6 PHP PHP 5.2.7 PHP PHP 5.2.8 PHP PHP 5.2.9 PHP PHP 5.2.10 PHP PHP 5.2.11 PHP PHP 5.2.12 PHP PHP 5.2.13 PHP PHP 5.2.14 PHP PHP 5.2.15 PHP PHP 5.2.16 PHP PHP 5.2.17 PHP PHP 5.3.0 PHP PHP 5.3.1 PHP PHP 5.3.2 PHP PHP 5.3.3 PHP PHP 5.3.4 PHP PHP 5.3.5 PHP PHP 5.3.6 PHP PHP 5.3.7 PHP PHP 5.3.8 PHP PHP 5.3.9 PHP PHP 5.3.10 PHP PHP 5.3.11 PHP PHP 5.3.12 PHP PHP 5.3.13 PHP PHP 5.3.14 PHP PHP 5.3.15 PHP PHP 5.3.16 PHP PHP 5.3.17 PHP PHP 5.3.18 PHP PHP 5.3.19 PHP PHP 5.3.20 PHP PHP 5.3.21 PHP PHP 5.3.22 PHP PHP 5.3.23 PHP PHP 5.3.24 PHP PHP 5.3.25 PHP PHP 5.3.26 PHP PHP 5.3.27 PHP PHP 5.3.28 PHP PHP 5.3.29 PHP PHP 5.4.0 PHP PHP 5.4.1 PHP PHP 5.4.2 PHP PHP 5.4.3 PHP PHP 5.4.4 PHP PHP 5.4.5 PHP PHP 5.4.6 PHP PHP 5.4.7 PHP PHP 5.4.8 PHP PHP 5.4.9 PHP PHP 5.4.10 PHP PHP 5.4.11 PHP PHP 5.4.12 PHP PHP 5.4.13 PHP PHP 5.4.14 PHP PHP 5.4.15 PHP PHP 5.4.16 PHP PHP 5.4.17 PHP PHP 5.4.18 PHP PHP 5.4.19 PHP PHP 5.4.20 PHP PHP 5.4.21 PHP PHP 5.4.22 PHP PHP 5.4.23 PHP PHP 5.4.24 PHP PHP 5.4.25 PHP PHP 5.4.26 PHP PHP 5.4.27 PHP PHP 5.4.28 PHP PHP 5.4.29 PHP PHP 5.4.30 PHP PHP 5.4.31 PHP PHP 5.4.32 PHP PHP 5.4.33 PHP PHP 5.4.34 PHP PHP 5.4.35 PHP PHP 5.4.36 PHP PHP 5.4.37 PHP PHP 5.4.38 PHP PHP 5.4.39 PHP PHP 5.4.40 PHP PHP 5.4.41 PHP PHP 5.4.42 PHP PHP 5.4.43 PHP PHP 5.4.44 PHP PHP 5.4.45 PHP PHP 5.5.0 PHP PHP 5.5.1 PHP PHP 5.5.2 PHP PHP 5.5.3 PHP PHP 5.5.4 PHP PHP 5.5.5 PHP PHP 5.5.6 PHP PHP 5.5.7 PHP PHP 5.5.8 PHP PHP 5.5.9 PHP PHP 5.5.10 PHP PHP 5.5.11 PHP PHP 5.5.12 PHP PHP 5.5.13 PHP PHP 5.5.14 PHP PHP 5.5.15 PHP PHP 5.5.16 PHP PHP 5.5.17 PHP PHP 5.5.18 PHP PHP 5.5.19 PHP PHP 5.5.20 PHP PHP 5.5.21 PHP PHP 5.5.22 PHP PHP 5.5.23 PHP PHP 5.5.24 PHP PHP 5.5.25 PHP PHP 5.5.26 PHP PHP 5.6.9 PHP PHP 5.6.3 PHP PHP 5.6.8	713

Nessus

NASL family	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
NASL id	UBUNTU_USN-3045-1.NASL
description	It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain SplMinHeap::compare operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-4116) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled recursive method calls. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8873) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly validated certain Exception objects when unserializing data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8876) It was discovered that PHP header() function performed insufficient filtering for Internet Explorer. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a XSS attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8935) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain locale operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5093) It was discovered that the PHP php_html_entities() function incorrectly handled certain string lengths. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5094, CVE-2016-5095) It was discovered that the PHP fread() function incorrectly handled certain lengths. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5096) It was discovered that the PHP FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) SAPI incorrectly handled memory in the access logging feature. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5114) It was discovered that PHP would not protect applications from contents of the HTTP_PROXY environment variable when based on the contents of the Proxy header from HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue in combination with scripts that honour the HTTP_PROXY variable to redirect outgoing HTTP requests. (CVE-2016-5385) Hans Jerry Illikainen discovered that the PHP bzread() function incorrectly performed error handling. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5399) It was discovered that certain PHP multibyte string functions incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5768) It was discovered that the PHP Mcrypt extension incorrectly handled memory. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5769) It was discovered that the PHP garbage collector incorrectly handled certain objects when unserializing malicious data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5771, CVE-2016-5773) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled memory when unserializing malicious xml data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-5772) It was discovered that the PHP php_url_parse_ex() function incorrectly handled string termination. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6288) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled path lengths when extracting certain Zip archives. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6289) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled session deserialization. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6290) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled exif headers when processing certain JPEG images. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6291, CVE-2016-6292) It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain locale operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6294) It was discovered that the PHP garbage collector incorrectly handled certain objects when unserializing SNMP data. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-6295) It was discovered that the PHP xmlrpc_encode_request() function incorrectly handled certain lengths. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6296) It was discovered that the PHP php_stream_zip_opener() function incorrectly handled memory. An attacker could use this issue to cause PHP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-6297). Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
last seen	2020-06-01
modified	2020-06-02
plugin id	92699
published	2016-08-03
reporter	Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/92699
title	Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : php5, php7.0 vulnerabilities (USN-3045-1) (httpoxy)

NASL family	SuSE Local Security Checks
NASL id	OPENSUSE-2016-703.NASL
description	This update for php5 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2013-7456: imagescale out-of-bounds read (bnc#982009). - CVE-2016-5093: get_icu_value_internal out-of-bounds read (bnc#982010). - CVE-2016-5094: Don
last seen	2020-06-05
modified	2016-06-14
plugin id	91585
published	2016-06-14
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91585
title	openSUSE Security Update : php5 (openSUSE-2016-703)

NASL family	SuSE Local Security Checks
NASL id	SUSE_SU-2016-1638-1.NASL
description	This update for php53 to version 5.3.17 fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2016-5093: get_icu_value_internal out-of-bounds read (bnc#982010). - CVE-2016-5094: Don
last seen	2020-06-01
modified	2020-06-02
plugin id	93161
published	2016-08-29
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93161
title	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php53 (SUSE-SU-2016:1638-1) (BACKRONYM)

NASL family	SuSE Local Security Checks
NASL id	SUSE_SU-2016-1504-1.NASL
description	This update for php5 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-4346: heap overflow in ext/standard/string.c (bsc#977994) - CVE-2016-4342: heap corruption in tar/zip/phar parser (bsc#977991) - CVE-2016-4537, CVE-2016-4538: bcpowmod accepts negative scale causing heap buffer overflow corrupting _one_ definition (bsc#978827) - CVE-2016-4539: Malformed input causes segmentation fault in xml_parse_into_struct() function (bsc#978828) - CVE-2016-4540, CVE-2016-4541: Out-of-bounds memory read in zif_grapheme_stripos when given negative offset (bsc#978829) - CVE-2016-4542, CVE-2016-4543, CVE-2016-4544: Out-of-bounds heap memory read in exif_read_data() caused by malformed input (bsc#978830) - CVE-2015-4116: Use-after-free vulnerability in the spl_ptr_heap_insert function (bsc#980366) - CVE-2015-8873: Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c (bsc#980373) - CVE-2015-8874: Stack consumption vulnerability in GD (bsc#980375) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
last seen	2020-03-24
modified	2019-01-02
plugin id	119978
published	2019-01-02
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119978
title	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php5 (SUSE-SU-2016:1504-1)

NASL family	Huawei Local Security Checks
NASL id	EULEROS_SA-2019-2649.NASL
description	According to the versions of the php packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - DISPUTED Integer overflow in the php_raw_url_encode function in ext/standard/url.c in PHP before 5.5.34, 5.6.x before 5.6.20, and 7.x before 7.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long string to the rawurlencode function. NOTE: the vendor says
last seen	2020-05-08
modified	2019-12-18
plugin id	132184
published	2019-12-18
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/132184
title	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : php (EulerOS-SA-2019-2649)

NASL family	SuSE Local Security Checks
NASL id	OPENSUSE-2016-696.NASL
description	This update for php5 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2016-4346: heap overflow in ext/standard/string.c (bsc#977994) - CVE-2016-4342: heap corruption in tar/zip/phar parser (bsc#977991) - CVE-2016-4537, CVE-2016-4538: bcpowmod accepts negative scale causing heap buffer overflow corrupting _one_ definition (bsc#978827) - CVE-2016-4539: Malformed input causes segmentation fault in xml_parse_into_struct() function (bsc#978828) - CVE-2016-4540, CVE-2016-4541: Out-of-bounds memory read in zif_grapheme_stripos when given negative offset (bsc#978829) - CVE-2016-4542, CVE-2016-4543, CVE-2016-4544: Out-of-bounds heap memory read in exif_read_data() caused by malformed input (bsc#978830) - CVE-2015-4116: Use-after-free vulnerability in the spl_ptr_heap_insert function (bsc#980366) - CVE-2015-8873: Stack consumption vulnerability in Zend/zend_exceptions.c (bsc#980373) - CVE-2015-8874: Stack consumption vulnerability in GD (bsc#980375) This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.
last seen	2020-06-05
modified	2016-06-09
plugin id	91531
published	2016-06-09
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91531
title	openSUSE Security Update : php5 (openSUSE-2016-696)

NASL family	Huawei Local Security Checks
NASL id	EULEROS_SA-2019-1865.NASL
description	According to the versions of the php packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the fpm_log_write() logging function of PHP
last seen	2020-05-08
modified	2019-09-17
plugin id	128917
published	2019-09-17
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/128917
title	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : php (EulerOS-SA-2019-1865)

NASL family	SuSE Local Security Checks
NASL id	SUSE_SU-2016-1581-1.NASL
description	This update for php53 fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-5093: A get_icu_value_internal out-of-bounds read could crash the php interpreter (bsc#982010) - CVE-2016-5094,CVE-2016-5095: Don
last seen	2020-06-01
modified	2020-06-02
plugin id	91665
published	2016-06-17
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91665
title	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php53 (SUSE-SU-2016:1581-1)

NASL family	Huawei Local Security Checks
NASL id	EULEROS_SA-2019-1984.NASL
description	According to the versions of the php packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The get_icu_disp_value_src_php function in ext/intl/locale/locale_methods.c in PHP before 5.3.29, 5.4.x before 5.4.30, and 5.5.x before 5.5.14 does not properly restrict calls to the ICU uresbund.cpp component, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a locale_get_display_name call with a long first argument.(CVE-2014-9912) - Use-after-free vulnerability in the spl_ptr_heap_insert function in ext/spl/spl_heap.c in PHP before 5.5.27 and 5.6.x before 5.6.11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a failed SplMinHeap::compare operation.(CVE-2015-4116) - A flaw was found in the way the way PHP
last seen	2020-05-08
modified	2019-09-24
plugin id	129178
published	2019-09-24
reporter	This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
source	https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129178
title	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : php (EulerOS-SA-2019-1984)

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Vulnerabilities > CVE-2015-4116