CVE-2016-7479

critical
Published 2017-01-12 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

In all versions of PHP 7, during the unserialization process, resizing the 'properties' hash table of a serialized object may lead to use-after-free. A remote attacker may exploit this bug to gain arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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-2016-7479.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
phpphp7.0.0
phpphp7.0.1
phpphp7.0.2
phpphp7.0.3
phpphp7.0.4
phpphp7.0.5
phpphp7.0.6
phpphp7.0.7
phpphp7.0.8
phpphp7.0.9
phpphp7.0.10
phpphp7.0.11
phpphp7.0.12
phpphp7.0.14
phpphp7.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-416

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