cve/2016/CVE-2016-5769.md

### [CVE-2016-5769](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5769)
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### Description

Multiple integer overflows in mcrypt.c in the mcrypt extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted length value, related to the (1) mcrypt_generic and (2) mdecrypt_generic functions.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72455

#### Github
- https://github.com/syadg123/pigat
- https://github.com/teamssix/pigat