CVE-2016-6292: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The exif_process_user_comment function in ext/exif/exif.c in PHP before 5.5.38, 5.6.x before 5.6.24, and 7.x before 7.0.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted JPEG image.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.5.37; 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 2016-07-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.