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CVE-2016-5768
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-08-07T10:59:16.007 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:50:00.890

Summary

Double free vulnerability in the _php_mb_regex_ereg_replace_exec function in php_mbregex.c in the mbstring extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging a callback exception.

Affected products

php — php

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