CVE-2008-5557 in PHPinfo

Summary

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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Reservation

12/15/2008

Disclosure

12/23/2008

Entries

1: VDB-45636

CPE

ready

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

0.29698

Activities

Very Low

Sources

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