CVE-2016-5094

HighCVSS 8.6/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Integer overflow in the php_html_entities 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 the htmlspecialchars function.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.6/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 7, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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