CVE-2016-7412

Publication date 17 September 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.1 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed in 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed in 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.25
php7.0 16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed in 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
php5
php7.0

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 8.1 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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