CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5773

Use After Free

Published: Aug 07, 2016 | Modified: Jan 05, 2018
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
5.1 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
5.6 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
LOW

php_zip.c in the zip extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 improperly interacts with the unserialize implementation and garbage collection, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via crafted serialized data containing a ZipArchive object.

Weakness

Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Php Php * 5.5.36 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-alpha1 (including) 5.6.0-alpha1 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-alpha2 (including) 5.6.0-alpha2 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-alpha3 (including) 5.6.0-alpha3 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-alpha4 (including) 5.6.0-alpha4 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-alpha5 (including) 5.6.0-alpha5 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-beta1 (including) 5.6.0-beta1 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-beta2 (including) 5.6.0-beta2 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-beta3 (including) 5.6.0-beta3 (including)
Php Php 5.6.0-beta4 (including) 5.6.0-beta4 (including)
Php Php 5.6.1 (including) 5.6.1 (including)
Php Php 5.6.2 (including) 5.6.2 (including)
Php Php 5.6.3 (including) 5.6.3 (including)
Php Php 5.6.4 (including) 5.6.4 (including)
Php Php 5.6.5 (including) 5.6.5 (including)
Php Php 5.6.6 (including) 5.6.6 (including)
Php Php 5.6.7 (including) 5.6.7 (including)
Php Php 5.6.8 (including) 5.6.8 (including)
Php Php 5.6.9 (including) 5.6.9 (including)
Php Php 5.6.10 (including) 5.6.10 (including)
Php Php 5.6.11 (including) 5.6.11 (including)
Php Php 5.6.12 (including) 5.6.12 (including)
Php Php 5.6.13 (including) 5.6.13 (including)
Php Php 5.6.14 (including) 5.6.14 (including)
Php Php 5.6.15 (including) 5.6.15 (including)
Php Php 5.6.16 (including) 5.6.16 (including)
Php Php 5.6.17 (including) 5.6.17 (including)
Php Php 5.6.18 (including) 5.6.18 (including)
Php Php 5.6.19 (including) 5.6.19 (including)
Php Php 5.6.20 (including) 5.6.20 (including)
Php Php 5.6.21 (including) 5.6.21 (including)
Php Php 5.6.22 (including) 5.6.22 (including)
Php Php 5.6.23 (including) 5.6.23 (including)
Php Php 7.0.0 (including) 7.0.0 (including)
Php Php 7.0.1 (including) 7.0.1 (including)
Php Php 7.0.2 (including) 7.0.2 (including)
Php Php 7.0.3 (including) 7.0.3 (including)
Php Php 7.0.4 (including) 7.0.4 (including)
Php Php 7.0.5 (including) 7.0.5 (including)
Php Php 7.0.6 (including) 7.0.6 (including)
Php Php 7.0.7 (including) 7.0.7 (including)
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat rh-php56-0:2.3-1.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat rh-php56-php-0:5.6.25-1.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RedHat rh-php56-php-pear-1:1.9.5-4.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS RedHat rh-php56-0:2.3-1.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS RedHat rh-php56-php-0:5.6.25-1.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS RedHat rh-php56-php-pear-1:1.9.5-4.el6 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat rh-php56-0:2.3-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat rh-php56-php-0:5.6.25-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat rh-php56-php-pear-1:1.9.5-4.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS RedHat rh-php56-0:2.3-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS RedHat rh-php56-php-0:5.6.25-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS RedHat rh-php56-php-pear-1:1.9.5-4.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS RedHat rh-php56-0:2.3-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS RedHat rh-php56-php-0:5.6.25-1.el7 *
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUS RedHat rh-php56-php-pear-1:1.9.5-4.el7 *
Php5 Ubuntu precise *
Php5 Ubuntu trusty *
Php5 Ubuntu upstream *
Php5 Ubuntu wily *
Php7.0 Ubuntu upstream *
Php7.0 Ubuntu xenial *

Extended Description

The use of previously-freed memory can have any number of adverse consequences, ranging from the corruption of valid data to the execution of arbitrary code, depending on the instantiation and timing of the flaw. The simplest way data corruption may occur involves the system’s reuse of the freed memory. Use-after-free errors have two common and sometimes overlapping causes:

In this scenario, the memory in question is allocated to another pointer validly at some point after it has been freed. The original pointer to the freed memory is used again and points to somewhere within the new allocation. As the data is changed, it corrupts the validly used memory; this induces undefined behavior in the process. If the newly allocated data happens to hold a class, in C++ for example, various function pointers may be scattered within the heap data. If one of these function pointers is overwritten with an address to valid shellcode, execution of arbitrary code can be achieved.

Potential Mitigations

References