cve-2025-6491
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-13 22:10
Modified
2025-07-14 15:59
Summary
NULL Pointer Dereference in PHP SOAP Extension via Large XML Namespace Prefix
Impacted products
PHP GroupPHP
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