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CVE-2009-4142

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Entered Topic
2009-12-17 php -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2009-4142
Phase Assigned(20091201)

Description

The htmlspecialchars function in PHP before 5.2.12 does not properly handle (1) overlong UTF-8 sequences, (2) invalid Shift_JIS sequences, and (3) invalid EUC-JP sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by placing a crafted byte sequence before a special character.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49785
CONFIRM http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
CONFIRM http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_12.php
CONFIRM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4077
APPLE APPLE-SA-2010-03-29-1
DEBIAN DSA-2001
HP HPSBUX02543
HP SSRT100152
BID 37389
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10005
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7085
SECTRACK 1023372
SECUNIA 37821
SECUNIA 38648
SECUNIA 40262
VUPEN ADV-2009-3593