UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5095

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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5095

Summary:

Details: Integer overflow in the php_escape_html_entities_ex function in ext/standard/html.c in PHP before 5.5.36 and 5.6.x before 5.6.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a large output string from a FILTER_SANITIZE_FULL_SPECIAL_CHARS filter_var call. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-5094.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5095, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3045-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5095