CVE-2016-4342: Opensuse Leap

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ext/phar/phar_object.c in PHP before 5.5.32, 5.6.x before 5.6.18, and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-length uncompressed data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted (1) TAR, (2) ZIP, or (3) PHAR archive.

Affected products

• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.5.31; version 5.6.0 only; version 5.6.1 only; version 5.6.2 only; version 5.6.3 only; version 5.6.4 only; …

Published 2016-05-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.