CVE-2015-7803: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 10.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The phar_get_entry_data function in ext/phar/util.c in PHP before 5.5.30 and 5.6.x before 5.6.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a .phar file with a crafted TAR archive entry in which the Link indicator references a file that does not exist.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.11.1
• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.5.29; version 5.6.1 only; version 5.6.2 only; version 5.6.3 only; version 5.6.4 only; version 5.6.5 only; …

Published 2015-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.