CVE-2016-7412

Publication date 17 September 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
php5	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.25
php7.0	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 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	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=28f80baf3c53e267c9ce46a2a0fadbb981585132
php7.0	Upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=c984661d39cfa4db1dd97fde1f59c77a44991440

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.1 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3095-1
PHP vulnerabilities
4 October 2016