Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7480",
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    "title": "CVE-2016-7480",
    "summary": "The SplObjectStorage unserialize implementation in ext/spl/spl_observer.c in PHP before 7.0.12 does not verify that a key is an object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) via crafted serialized data.",
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      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/",
        "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcaPstAuPk",
        "https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73257",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
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  "published_at": "2017-01-11T07:59:00.143+00:00"
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