PublicDateAtUSN: 2017-01-11
Candidate: CVE-2016-7478
PublicDate: 2017-01-11 06:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-7478
 http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/12/27/check-point-discovers-three-zero-day-vulnerabilities-web-programming-language-php-7
 http://blog.checkpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PHP_Technical_Report.pdf
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcaPstAuPk
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3196-1
Description:
 Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP, possibly 5.x before 5.6.28 and 7.x before
 7.0.13, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite
 loop) via a crafted Exception object in serialized data, a related issue to
 CVE-2015-8876.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> can't reproduce with 7.0.13, assumed fixed
 mdeslaur> php5 needs CVE-2016-9137 to be applied
Bugs:
 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73093
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_php5:
 upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=40e7baab3c90001beee4c8f0ed0ef79ad18ee0d6
upstream_php5: needs-triage
precise_php5: released (5.3.10-1ubuntu3.26)
trusty_php5: released (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.21)
trusty/esm_php5: released (5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.21)
vivid/ubuntu-core_php5: DNE
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_php5: DNE
xenial_php5: DNE
yakkety_php5: DNE
devel_php5: DNE

Patches_php7.0:
 upstream: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=eca84946a4e7269d59ea2d79b5f42117de89ae74 (possibly)
upstream_php7.0: needs-triage
precise_php7.0: DNE
trusty_php7.0: DNE
trusty/esm_php7.0: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_php7.0: DNE
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_php7.0: DNE
xenial_php7.0: not-affected (7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
esm-infra/xenial_php7.0: not-affected (7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.04.1)
yakkety_php7.0: not-affected (7.0.13-0ubuntu0.16.10.1)
devel_php7.0: not-affected (7.0.14-2ubuntu1)