CVE-2006-1490

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

PHP before 5.1.3-RC1 might allow remote attackers to obtain portions of memory via crafted binary data sent to a script that processes user input in the html_entity_decode function and sends the encoded results back to the client, aka a "binary safety" issue. NOTE: this issue has been referred to as a "memory leak," but it is an information leak that discloses memory contents.

PHP before 5.1.3-RC1 might allow remote attackers to obtain portions of memory via crafted binary data sent to a script that processes user input in the html_entity_decode function and sends the encoded results back to the client, aka a "binary safety" issue. NOTE: this issue has been referred to as a "memory leak," but it is an information leak that discloses memory contents.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

Type

PHP

First reported 19 years ago

2006-03-29 21:06:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:25:00

Affected Software

PHP PHP 3.0

3.0

PHP PHP 3.0.1

3.0.1

PHP PHP 3.0.2

3.0.2

PHP PHP 3.0.3

3.0.3

PHP PHP 3.0.4

3.0.4

PHP PHP 3.0.5

3.0.5

PHP PHP 3.0.6

3.0.6

PHP PHP 3.0.7

3.0.7

PHP PHP 3.0.8

3.0.8

PHP PHP 3.0.9

3.0.9

PHP PHP 3.0.10

3.0.10

PHP PHP 3.0.11

3.0.11

PHP PHP 3.0.12

3.0.12

PHP PHP 3.0.13

3.0.13

PHP PHP 3.0.14

3.0.14

PHP PHP 3.0.15

3.0.15

PHP PHP 3.0.16

3.0.16

PHP PHP 3.0.17

3.0.17

PHP PHP 3.0.18

3.0.18

PHP PHP 4.0.0

4.0.0

PHP PHP 4.0.1

4.0.1

PHP PHP 4.0.2

4.0.2

PHP PHP 4.0.3

4.0.3

PHP PHP 4.0.4

4.0.4

PHP PHP 4.0.5

4.0.5

PHP PHP 4.0.6

4.0.6

PHP PHP 4.0.7

4.0.7

PHP 4.0.7 Release Candidate 1

4.0.7

PHP 4.0.7 Release Candidate 2

4.0.7

PHP 4.0.7 Release Candidate 3

4.0.7

PHP PHP 4.1.0

4.1.0

PHP PHP 4.1.1

4.1.1

PHP PHP 4.1.2

4.1.2

PHP PHP 4.2.0

4.2.0

PHP PHP 4.2.1

4.2.1

PHP PHP 4.2.2

4.2.2

PHP PHP 4.2.3

4.2.3

PHP PHP 4.3.0

4.3.0

PHP PHP 4.3.1

4.3.1

PHP PHP 4.3.2

4.3.2

PHP PHP 4.3.3

4.3.3

PHP PHP 4.3.4

4.3.4

PHP PHP 4.3.5

4.3.5

PHP PHP 4.3.6

4.3.6

PHP PHP 4.3.7

4.3.7

PHP PHP 4.3.8

4.3.8

PHP PHP 4.3.9

4.3.9

PHP PHP 4.3.10

4.3.10

PHP PHP 4.3.11

4.3.11

PHP PHP 4.4.0

4.4.0

PHP PHP 4.4.1

4.4.1

PHP PHP 4.4.2

4.4.2

PHP PHP 5.0.0

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 Beta1

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 Beta2

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 Beta3

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 Beta4

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 RC1

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 RC2

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 RC3

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.1

5.0.1

PHP PHP 5.0.2

5.0.2

PHP PHP 5.0.3

5.0.3

PHP PHP 5.0.4

5.0.4

PHP PHP 5.0.5

5.0.5

PHP PHP 5.1.0

5.1.0

PHP PHP 5.1.1

5.1.1

PHP PHP 5.1.2

5.1.2

References

20060501-01-U

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127939

http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/html.c?r1=1.112&r2=1.113

Patch

http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/html.c?view=log

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829

APPLE-SA-2006-11-28

RHSA-2006:0276

19383

19499

19570

19832

19979

20052

20210

20951

21125

23155

GLSA-200605-08

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-129.htm

MDKSA-2006:063

SUSE-SA:2006:024

20060328 Re: [Full-disclosure] Critical PHP bug - act ASAP if you are running web with sensitive data

20060328 Critical PHP bug - act ASAP if you are running web with sensitive data

17296

2006-0020

USN-320-1

TA06-333A

US Government Resource

ADV-2006-1149

ADV-2006-2685

ADV-2006-4750

php-htmlentitydecode-information-disclosure(25508)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11084

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