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CVE-2008-5557

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
23/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
10.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.3.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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