High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 22, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2015-8879
CVE-2015-8879
Description
The odbc_bindcols function in ext/odbc/php_odbc.c in PHP before 5.6.12 mishandles driver behavior for SQL_WVARCHAR columns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) in opportunistic circumstances by leveraging use of the odbc_fetch_array function to access a certain type of Microsoft SQL Server table.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
3- bugs.php.net/bug.phpnvdExploitVendor Advisory
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpnvdVendor Advisory
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