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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-3078 in the critical feed json

Multiple integer overflows in php_zip.c in the zip extension in PHP before 7.0.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-…

published 2016-08-07 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-4147

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
56.1%
EPSS 56.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in php_zip.c in the zip extension in PHP before 7.0.6 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 call to (1) getFromIndex or (2) getFromName in the ZipArchive class.

Patch / fix

  • php php 7.0.6
  • php7.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.0.4-7ubuntu2.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3078

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-3078 updated cvss 6.8

php: Heap overflow caused by integer overflow when reading zip files in ZipArchive

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php, php53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +18 more Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 php Red Hat Software Collections php54-php, php55-php, php54-php-gd, php55-php-gd, rh-php56-php, php54-php-cli, +72 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-26-027-02 updated cvss 9.8

Festo Didactic SE MES PC

  • Festo Didactic SE MES PC shipped_with_Windows_10
    affected: vendor fix

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-39742)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

56.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-39742 PHP 7.0.5 - ZipArchive::getFrom* Integer Overflow remote, 2016-04-28
  • bugs.php.net https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71923 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • openwall.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/28/1 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
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References

Sources

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