CVE-2016-4343

high
Published 2016-05-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
8.8

Description

The phar_make_dirstream function in ext/phar/dirstream.c in PHP before 5.6.18 and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-size ././@LongLink files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71331

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

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

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4343.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
suse suse13.2affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endExcluding":"5.5.36"}5.5.36

References

CWEs

CWE-824

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