CVE-2016-7398: Incorrect Type Cast

First published: Fri Sep 06 2019(Updated: )

A type confusion vulnerability in the merge_param() function of php_http_params.c in PHP's pecl-http extension 3.1.0beta2 (PHP 7) and earlier as well as 2.6.0beta2 (PHP 5) and earlier allows attackers to crash PHP and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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