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high 8.1

CVE-2016-7133 json

Zend/zend_alloc.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.10, when open_basedir is enabled, mishandles huge realloc operations, which allows remote attackers…

published 2016-09-12 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8011

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Zend/zend_alloc.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.10, when open_basedir is enabled, mishandles huge realloc operations, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long pathname.

Patch / fix

  • php7.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7133

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

  • php7 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP1, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 7.0.7-15.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2460-1SUSE-SU-2016:2460-2

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-2016-7133 updated cvss 7.5

php: memory allocator fails to realloc small block to large one

  • 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

Exploit prediction

4.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.php.net https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72742 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/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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