Description
main/php_open_temporary_file.c in PHP before 5.5.28 and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not ensure thread safety, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (race condition and heap memory corruption) by leveraging an application that performs many temporary-file accesses.
Published: 2016-05-22
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: 1.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-499-1 php5 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8734 main/php_open_temporary_file.c in PHP before 5.5.28 and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not ensure thread safety, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (race condition and heap memory corruption) by leveraging an application that performs many temporary-file accesses.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:01:58.847Z

Reserved: 2016-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8878

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-05-22T01:59:10.307

Modified: 2026-06-17T00:35:25.590

Link: CVE-2015-8878

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-07-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8878 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-119

    Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

  • CWE-362

    Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

  • CWE-567

    Unsynchronized Access to Shared Data in a Multithreaded Context