CVE-2016-4342 describes a heap memory corruption vulnerability in PHP versions prior to 5.5.32, 5.6.18, and 7.0.3, specifically within the ext/phar/phar_object.c component. This flaw, affecting openSUSE and PHP products, arises from improper handling of zero-length uncompressed data in crafted TAR, ZIP, or PHAR archives. With a CVSSv3 score of 8.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, potentially leading to denial of service or other unspecified impacts including high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 5.5.31CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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