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PHP Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2008-5557 - Vulnerability Database
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PHP Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability - CVE-2008-5557

Critical
Reference: CVE-2008-5557
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5557
Title: PHP Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability
Overview:

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.