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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-4142: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-4142: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
12/21/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

Description

The htmlspecialchars function in PHP before 5.2.12 does not properly handle (1) overlong UTF-8 sequences, (2) invalid Shift_JIS sequences, and (3) invalid EUC-JP sequences, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks by placing a crafted byte sequence before a special character.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-php

References

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