Fortinet Discovers Multiple Stack Overflow Vulnerabilities in PHP

Summary

Two stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities had been discovered in PHP 5 and 7.

CVE-2016-6289 is related to core's function virtual_file_ex. The vulnerability can be triggered when PHP is handling a very long file path.
CVE-2016-6297 is related to PHP stream_zip_opener. The vulnerability can be triggered when PHP calls fopen function with an overly long filename passed to the zip:// handler.

Successful exploit of these vulnerabilities will cause memory corruption and lead to DoS. Under some conditions, remote code execution is also possible.

Solutions

Users should apply the solution provided by PHP.

Additional Information

The vulnerability details can be found at

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72513
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72520

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to The PHP Group on June 30, 2016.

The PHP Group confirmed the vulnerability on July 13, 2016.

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Tony Loi of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

References

• http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
• CVE-2016-6289
• CVE-2016-6297

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