CVE-2015-6837

high
Published 2016-05-16 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

The xsl_ext_function_php function in ext/xsl/xsltprocessor.c in PHP before 5.4.45, 5.5.x before 5.5.29, and 5.6.x before 5.6.13, when libxml2 before 2.9.2 is used, does not consider the possibility of a NULL valuePop return value before proceeding with a free operation during initial error checking, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted XML document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-6838.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp5.6.0
php phpphp5.6.1
php phpphp5.6.2
php phpphp5.6.3
php phpphp5.6.4
php phpphp5.6.5
php phpphp5.6.6
php phpphp5.6.7
php phpphp5.6.8
php phpphp5.6.9
php phpphp5.6.10
php phpphp5.6.11
php phpphp5.6.12
xmlsoftlibxml2{"endIncluding":"2.9.1"}
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.4.44"}
php phpphp5.5.0
php phpphp5.5.1
php phpphp5.5.2
php phpphp5.5.3
php phpphp5.5.4
php phpphp5.5.5
php phpphp5.5.6
php phpphp5.5.7
php phpphp5.5.8
php phpphp5.5.9
php phpphp5.5.10
php phpphp5.5.11
php phpphp5.5.12
php phpphp5.5.13
php phpphp5.5.14
php phpphp5.5.15
php phpphp5.5.16
php phpphp5.5.17
php phpphp5.5.18
php phpphp5.5.19
php phpphp5.5.20
php phpphp5.5.21
php phpphp5.5.22
php phpphp5.5.23
php phpphp5.5.24
php phpphp5.5.25
php phpphp5.5.26
php phpphp5.5.27
php phpphp5.5.28

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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