# CVE-2015-4601: PHP before 5.6.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an une

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2016-05-16 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

PHP before 5.6.7 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an unexpected data type, related to "type confusion" issues in (1) ext/soap/php_encoding.c, (2) ext/soap/php_http.c, and (3) ext/soap/soap.c, a different issue than CVE-2015-4600.

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## References

- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032709
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0c136a2abd49298b66acb0cad504f0f972f5bfe8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75246
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/16/12
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1135.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1218.html

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