CVE-2007-5898

critical

Description

The (1) htmlentities and (2) htmlspecialchars functions in PHP before 5.2.5 accept partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact and attack vectors, a different issue than CVE-2006-5465.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-June/msg00773.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/549-1/

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10080

https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1943

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-549-2

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491693/100/0/threaded

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0582.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0546.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0545.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0544.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0505.html

http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_5.php

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.5

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:127

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:126

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:125

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1444

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2007-0242

http://securitytracker.com/id?1018934

http://secunia.com/advisories/31200

http://secunia.com/advisories/31124

http://secunia.com/advisories/31119

http://secunia.com/advisories/30828

http://secunia.com/advisories/30040

http://secunia.com/advisories/28658

http://secunia.com/advisories/28249

http://secunia.com/advisories/27864

http://secunia.com/advisories/27659

http://secunia.com/advisories/27648

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-11-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical