CVE-2016-2554

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

EPSS

11%p96

Published

May 16, 2016 (May 16, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in ext/phar/tar.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive.

Vendors: php
Products: php
Weakness: CWE-119
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (11.0%)

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