{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6296","details":"Integer signedness error in the simplestring_addn function in simplestring.c in xmlrpc-epi through 0.54.2, as used 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 (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long first argument to the PHP xmlrpc_encode_request function.","modified":"2025-11-19T02:02:52.393198Z","published":"2016-07-25T14:59:10.297Z","upstream":["CVE-2016-6296"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6296"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"xmlrpc-epi","ecosystem":"Debian:11","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/xmlrpc-epi?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.54.2-1.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6296.json"}},{"package":{"name":"xmlrpc-epi","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/xmlrpc-epi?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.54.2-1.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6296.json"}},{"package":{"name":"xmlrpc-epi","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/xmlrpc-epi?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.54.2-1.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6296.json"}},{"package":{"name":"xmlrpc-epi","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/xmlrpc-epi?arch=source"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.54.2-1.2"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6296.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}