CVE-2015-4601

Publication date 23 June 2015

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
php5 15.04 vivid
Fixed 5.6.4+dfsg-4ubuntu6.2
14.10 utopic
Fixed 5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.6
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.11
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.19

Notes

mdeslaur

commit already in CVE-2015-4147

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
php5

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8 · Critical
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

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