CVE-2016-4342

high
Published 2016-05-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
8.3
VIR risk
8.8

Description

ext/phar/phar_object.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-length uncompressed data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) TAR, (2) ZIP, or (3) PHAR archive.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4342.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
suse suse42.1affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.5.31"}
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
php phpphp5.6.13
php phpphp5.6.14
php phpphp5.6.15
php phpphp5.6.16
php phpphp5.6.17
php phpphp7.0.0
php phpphp7.0.1
php phpphp7.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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