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2009-03-16 | php-mbstring -- php mbstring buffer overflow vulnerability |
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Type | Candidate |
Name | CVE-2008-5557 |
Phase | Assigned(20081215) |
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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