CVE-2016-5769: PHP

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer overflows in mcrypt.c in the mcrypt extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted length value, related to the (1) mcrypt_generic and (2) mdecrypt_generic functions.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.5.36; 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.