CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2016-4343
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
4.21%
Original NVD Description
The phar_make_dirstream function in ext/phar/dirstream.c in PHP before 5.6.18 and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-size ././@LongLink files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive.