CVE-2016-3078

critical
Published 2016-08-07 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39742 remote php
Hans Jerry Illikainen ยท 2016-04-28

PHP 7.0.5 - ZipArchive::getFrom* Integer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"startIncluding":"7.0.0","endExcluding":"7.0.6"}7.0.6

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.