CVE-2008-5557

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-12-23

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.

See more information about CVE-2008-5557 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	10	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 3 (php)	ELSA-2009-0337	2009-04-06
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (php)	ELSA-2009-0337	2009-04-06
Oracle Linux version 5 (php)	ELSA-2009-0338	2009-04-06

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