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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2010-4657

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Nov 13, 2019
Added
Nov 29, 2019
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

PHP5 before 5.4.4 allows passing invalid utf-8 strings via the xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute, which are then misparsed by libxml2. This results in memory leak into the resulting output.

Solution

php-upgrade-5_4_4
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