Out-of-bounds read in Meta HHVM
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
The implementations of streams for bz2 and php://output improperly implemented their readImpl functions, returning -1 consistently. This behavior caused some stream functions, such as stream_get_line, to trigger an out-of-bounds read when operating on such malformed streams. The implementations were updated to return valid values consistently. This affects all supported versions of HHVM (3.30 and 3.27.4 and below).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA HHVM (Facebook) Fixed in 3.27.5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2019-3557
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x6p7-p3gg-q926
References
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Sources
- CVE-2019-3557 · CVE Program
- CVE-2019-3557 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-x6p7-p3gg-q926 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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