CVE-2015-2783: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 10.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ext/phar/phar.c in PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) via a crafted length value in conjunction with crafted serialized data in a phar archive, related to the phar_parse_metadata and phar_parse_pharfile functions.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.10.5
• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.4.39; version 5.5.0 only; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.5.2 only; version 5.5.3 only; version 5.5.4 only; …
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: version 7.1 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2015-06-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.