Out-of-Bounds Affecting php package, versions [4.3.0,5.2.6]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
14.36% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335122
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Dec 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Dec 2008

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for php.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

CVSS Scores

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