Denial of service vulnerability in PHP

Description

An unspecified vulnerability was found in PHP before 5.6.29 and 7.x before 7.0.14. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause a denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via an empty boolean element in a wddxPacket XML document.

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Technical details

This vulnerability occurs in the php_wddx_push_element function in ext/wddx/wddx.c.

Original advisories

• PHP 7 ChangeLog

• PHP 5 ChangeLog

Related products

• PHP

CVE list

• CVE-2016-9935
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