CVE-2015-8876

php: Zend/zend_exceptions.c does not validate certain Exception objects

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · August 4, 2015

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not validate certain Exception objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or trigger unintended method execution via crafted serialized data.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-502 · Deserialization of Untrusted Data