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CVE-2016-5769 in the critical feed json

Multiple integer overflows in mcrypt.c in the mcrypt extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allow remote…

published 2016-08-07 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-6704

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.4%
EPSS 8.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple integer overflows in mcrypt.c in the mcrypt extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 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 length value, related to the (1) mcrypt_generic and (2) mdecrypt_generic functions.

Patch / fix

  • php5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.19
  • php7.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5769

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

  • php53 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 5.3.17-74.1
  • php5 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP1, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 5.5.14-68.1
  • php5 SLES 11 SP2-LTSS 5.2.14-0.7.30.89.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2080-1SUSE-SU-2016:2013-1SUSE-SU-2016:1842-1

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-2016-5769 updated cvss 5.6

php: Integer Overflows in mcrypt_generic() and mdecrypt_generic() resulting in heap overflows

  • 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 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

8.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound
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Sources

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