CVE-2016-4542

Publication date 6 May 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

The exif_process_IFD_TAG function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.5.35, 5.6.x before 5.6.21, and 7.x before 7.0.6 does not properly construct spprintf arguments, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted header data.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Fixed 5.6.11+dfsg-1ubuntu3.4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.17
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.23
php7.0	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7.0.4-7ubuntu2.1
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Notes

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Fixed in 7.0.6, 5.6.21, 5.5.35

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
php5	Upstream: https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=082aecfc3a753ad03be82cf14f03ac065723ec92
php7.0	Upstream: https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=082aecfc3a753ad03be82cf14f03ac065723ec92

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2984-1
PHP vulnerabilities
24 May 2016