CVE-2015-8878

MediumCVSS 5.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

main/php_open_temporary_file.c in PHP before 5.5.28 and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not ensure thread safety, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (race condition and heap memory corruption) by leveraging an application that performs many temporary-file accesses.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.9/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119 CWE-362

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpVendor Advisory
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70002Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpVendor Advisory
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70002Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: May 22, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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