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CVE-2008-5557

Disclosure Date: December 23, 2008
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Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in ext/mbstring/libmbfl/filters/mbfilter_htmlent.c in the mbstring extension in PHP 4.3.0 through 5.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string containing an HTML entity, which is not properly handled during Unicode conversion, related to the (1) mb_convert_encoding, (2) mb_check_encoding, (3) mb_convert_variables, and (4) mb_parse_str functions.

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General Information

Vendors

  • php

Products

  • php 4.3.0,
  • php 4.3.1,
  • php 4.3.10,
  • php 4.3.11,
  • php 4.3.2,
  • php 4.3.3,
  • php 4.3.4,
  • php 4.3.5,
  • php 4.3.6,
  • php 4.3.7,
  • php 4.3.8,
  • php 4.3.9,
  • php 4.4.0,
  • php 4.4.1,
  • php 4.4.2,
  • php 4.4.3,
  • php 4.4.4,
  • php 4.4.5,
  • php 4.4.6,
  • php 4.4.7,
  • php 4.4.8,
  • php 4.4.9,
  • php 5.0.0,
  • php 5.0.1,
  • php 5.0.2,
  • php 5.0.3,
  • php 5.0.4,
  • php 5.0.5,
  • php 5.1.0,
  • php 5.1.1,
  • php 5.1.2,
  • php 5.1.3,
  • php 5.1.4,
  • php 5.1.5,
  • php 5.1.6,
  • php 5.2.0,
  • php 5.2.1,
  • php 5.2.2,
  • php 5.2.3,
  • php 5.2.4,
  • php 5.2.5,
  • php 5.2.6

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