CVE-2016-5769

NameCVE-2016-5769
DescriptionMultiple integer overflows in mcrypt.c in the mcrypt extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted length value, related to the (1) mcrypt_generic and (2) mdecrypt_generic functions.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-628-1, DSA-3618-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
php5 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)5.6.40+dfsg-0+deb8u21fixed
php7.0 (PTS)stretch (security)7.0.33-0+deb9u12fixed
stretch (lts), stretch7.0.33-0+deb9u19fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
php5sourcewheezy5.4.45-0+deb7u5DLA-628-1
php5sourcejessie5.6.23+dfsg-0+deb8u1DSA-3618-1
php5source(unstable)5.6.23+dfsg-1
php7.0source(unstable)7.0.8-1

Notes

PHP Bug: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72455
https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commitdiff;h=6c5211a0cef0cc2854eaa387e0eb036e012904d0
Fixed in 5.5.37, 5.6.23, 7.0.8

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