CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects Microsoft. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2015-8879
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.42%
Microsoft
Original NVD Description
The odbc_bindcols function in ext/odbc/php_odbc.c in PHP before 5.6.12 mishandles driver behavior for SQL_WVARCHAR columns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging use of the odbc_fetch_array function to access a certain type of Microsoft SQL Server table.