CVE-2016-5768 in macOS

Summary

Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.

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• Reservation: 06/23/2016
• Disclosure: 08/07/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 2
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-415 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 9.8
• EPSS: 0.20989
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5768
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5768
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-5768/