CVE-2016-4343: Opensuse

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The phar_make_dirstream function in ext/phar/dirstream.c in PHP before 5.6.18 and 7.x before 7.0.3 mishandles zero-size ././@LongLink files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted TAR archive.

Affected products

• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only
• PHP PHP: before 5.5.36 (fixed in 5.5.36); from 5.6.0, before 5.6.18 (fixed in 5.6.18); from 7.0.0, before 7.0.3 (fixed in 7.0.3)

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