VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7412

high
Published 2016-09-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.1

Description

ext/mysqlnd/mysqlnd_wireprotocol.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 does not verify that a BIT field has the UNSIGNED_FLAG flag, which allows remote MySQL servers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted field metadata.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
88%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.6.25"}
php phpphp7.0.0
php phpphp7.0.1
php phpphp7.0.2
php phpphp7.0.3
php phpphp7.0.4
php phpphp7.0.5
php phpphp7.0.6
php phpphp7.0.7
php phpphp7.0.8
php phpphp7.0.9
php phpphp7.0.10

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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