CVE-2015-8878 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2015-8878

main/php_open_temporary_file.c in PHP before 5.5.28 and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does...

Vulnerability Description

main/php_open_temporary_file.c in PHP before 5.5.28 and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not ensure thread safety, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (race condition and heap memory corruption) by leveraging an application that performs many temporary-file accesses.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

php
Vulnerable Versions:
5.5.0, 5.6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: May 22nd, 2016
Last Modified: September 17th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.