The make_http_soap_request function in ext/soap/php_http.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not properly retrieve keys, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference, type confusion, and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted serialized data representing a numerically indexed _cookies array, related to the SoapClient::__call method in ext/soap/soap.c.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2015-8835 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 5.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (rh-php56-php) | RHSA-2016:2750 | 2016-11-15 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (rh-php56-php) | RHSA-2016:2750 | 2016-11-15 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | php55-php | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | php54-php | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | php | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | php | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | php53 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | php | Will not fix |
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