CVE-2026-12184 is a null pointer dereference vulnerability in PHP’s HTTP stream wrapper during HTTP connection handling. When TLS initialization fails, PHP closes and resets the internal stream object but continues cleanup operations that assume the object remains valid. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger the failure through TLS validation errors, such as an expired certificate or mismatched peer name, potentially crashing PHP-FPM and disrupting service. Affected PHP branches have fixes in versions 8.3.32, 8.4.21, and 8.5.6.
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A PHP vulnerability referenced as addressed by the rebase to PHP 8.3.32 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8.z. The content does not describe its technical cause or impact.
A high-impact denial-of-service vulnerability in PHP’s HTTP stream wrapper caused by improper cleanup after TLS initialization failure, leading to unsafe operations on a null reference and potential PHP-FPM worker termination.
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