CVE-2016-5093: PHP

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The get_icu_value_internal function in ext/intl/locale/locale_methods.c in PHP before 5.5.36, 5.6.x before 5.6.22, and 7.x before 7.0.7 does not ensure the presence of a '\0' character, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted locale_get_primary_language call.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.5.35; 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 2016-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.