VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8616

high
Published 2016-01-19 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
8.6

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Collator::sortWithSortKeys function in ext/intl/collator/collator_sort.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the relationships between a key buffer and a destroyed array.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
91%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpphp7.0.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.