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[CIA-1070-Alert] PHP Multiple Buffer Overflows

Summary:

Several high risk security issues were recently disclosed in versions of PHP prior to 5.2.0

Technical Details:

Sites running a version of PHP prior to 5.2.0 should upgrade to the 5.2.0 release as soon as possible. Multiple Integer and Heap overflows that allow the execution of arbitrary code were disclosed in various PHP versions. Among the vulnerabilities disclosed in November were buffer overflows in the processing of PHP's htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() functions, which can facilitate buffer overflows in the processing of UTF-8 characters. Additional information on this vulnerability can be found in the Hardened-PHP Project advisory.

Solution:

Upgrade to the latest stable release of PHP

CVE Reference:

CVE-2006-5465

SecurityTracker Number(s):

1017152

Vendor URL:

PHP.net

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