cve/2016/CVE-2016-6296.md

### [CVE-2016-6296](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6296)
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### Description

Integer signedness error in the simplestring_addn function in simplestring.c in xmlrpc-epi through 0.54.2, as used in PHP before 5.5.38, 5.6.x before 5.6.24, and 7.x before 7.0.9, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long first argument to the PHP xmlrpc_encode_request function.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3059-1
- https://bugs.php.net/72606

#### Github
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