Bug 215565

Summary:	php5 htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() functions vulnerable to buffer overflow allowing arbitrary remote code execution
Product:	[Retired] Fedora Legacy	Reporter:	Jeff MacDonald <jam>
Component:	php	Assignee:	Fedora Legacy Bugs <bugs>
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Description Jeff MacDonald 2006-11-14 17:22:16 UTC

Description of problem:

versions of php5 prior to 5.2 have a vulnerability which allows "arbitrary
remote code execution via the htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() functions to
do assumpmtions regarding the length of a valid htmlentity.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
php-5.0.4-10.5

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Additional info:
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_132006.138.html

Comment 1 David Eisenstein 2006-11-15 07:26:04 UTC

This issue is CVE-2006-5465, which is being worked on in Bug #214391.
Thanks for your submission!  :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214391 ***