CVE-2016-7416

NameCVE-2016-7416
Descriptionext/intl/msgformat/msgformat_format.c in PHP before 5.6.26 and 7.x before 7.0.11 does not properly restrict the locale length provided to the Locale class in the ICU library, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a MessageFormatter::formatMessage call with a long first argument.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-749-1, DSA-3689-1

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
php5sourcewheezy5.4.45-0+deb7u6DLA-749-1
php5sourcejessie5.6.26+dfsg-0+deb8u1DSA-3689-1
php5source(unstable)5.6.26+dfsg-1
php7.0source(unstable)7.0.11-1

Notes

PHP Bug: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73007
Fixed in 7.0.11, 5.6.26
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/6d55ba265637d6adf0ba7e9c9ef11187d1ec2f5b?w=1

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