High
Security advisory
The php_wddx_push_element function in ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer access and out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an incorrect boolean element in a wddxPacket XML document, leading to mishandling in a wddx_deserialize call.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-7418
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The php_wddx_push_element function in ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid pointer access and out-of-bounds read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an incorrect boolean element in a wddxPacket XML document, leading to mishandling in a wddx_deserialize call.
osv:CVE-2016-7418
Complete source record
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