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CVE-2016-5399

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 9.84% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-04-21 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-5399
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
9.84%

Original NVD Description

The bzread function in ext/bz2/bz2.c in PHP before 5.5.38, 5.6.x before 5.6.24, and 7.x before 7.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted bz2 archive.