CVE-2016-4543: Fedoraproject Fedora

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 11.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The exif_process_IFD_in_JPEG function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.5.35, 5.6.x before 5.6.21, and 7.x before 7.0.6 does not validate IFD sizes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted header data.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 24 only
• HP System Management Homepage: up to and including 7.5.5.6
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.5.34; 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.