CVE-2007-5898

CVE Details

Release Date:	2007-11-20
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

The (1) htmlentities and (2) htmlspecialchars functions in PHP before 5.2.5 accept partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a different issue than CVE-2006-5465.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	6.4
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial
Availability Impact:	None

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (php)	ELSA-2008-0544	2008-07-16
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (php)	ELSA-2008-0545	2008-07-16
Oracle Linux version 5 (php)	ELSA-2008-0544	2008-07-16