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PHP "htmlentities()" and "htmlspecialchars()" Buffer Overflows
Secunia Advisory: SA22653
Release Date: 2006-11-02
Last Update: 2006-11-03
Popularity: 31,885 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:PHP 4.0.x
PHP 4.1.x
PHP 4.2.x
PHP 4.3.x
PHP 4.4.x
PHP 5.0.x
PHP 5.1.x

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to boundary errors within the "htmlentities()" and "htmlspecialchars()" functions. If a PHP application uses these functions to process user-supplied input, this can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow by passing specially crafted data to the affected application.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that the UTF-8 character set is selected.

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