CVE-2008-5557
php php: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 7.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 7.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- php:php
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-12/0477.html
- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45722
- http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/mbstring/libmbfl/filters/mbfilter_htmlent.c?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02029444
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html