CVE catalog
CVE-2008-5557
php5 - several vulnerabilities
- Severity
- Unknown
- Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 7.37% · Oct 27, 2026
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. php: Heap-based buffer overflow in the mbstring extension via crafted string containing a HTML entity (arb code execution)
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | php5 | 5.0 | 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2 | fixed |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | php5 | deb | 5.0 | 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2 | Not reported | DTSA-188-1 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
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