Out-of-Bounds Affecting php5 package, versions <5.2.6.dfsg.1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
14.36% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-PHP5-394943
  • published23 Dec 2008
  • disclosed23 Dec 2008

Introduced: 23 Dec 2008

CVE-2008-5557  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 php5 to version 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php5 package and not the php5 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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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