01 Record
CVE-2006-5465
Buffer overflow in PHP before 5.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 inputs to the (1) htmlentities or (2) htmlspecialchars functions.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Buffer overflow in PHP before 5.2.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 inputs to the (1) htmlentities or (2) htmlspecialchars functions.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 10.30% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-11-04 00:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 19:48Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-10-23
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7770e9877a76ad1585f33251d5f1b49e1df98ecebdb726a3b9faeef8ebfa4eca
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- secunia.com22881http://secunia.com/advisories/22881
- securitytracker.com1017152http://securitytracker.com/id?1017152
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-4750http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-4749http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4749
- www.securityfocus.com20061102 Advisory 13/2006: PHP HTML Entity Encoder Heap Overflow Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/450431/100/0/threaded
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0731http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0731.html
- secunia.com22759http://secunia.com/advisories/22759
- secunia.com24606http://secunia.com/advisories/24606
- www.vupen.comADV-2007-1546http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1546
- docs.info.apple.comhttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- www.turbolinux.comTLSA-2006-38http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2006/TLSA-2006-38.txt
- www.debian.orgDSA-1206http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1206
- secunia.com22693http://secunia.com/advisories/22693
- secunia.com23247http://secunia.com/advisories/23247
- secunia.com22653http://secunia.com/advisories/22653
- secunia.com22688http://secunia.com/advisories/22688
- www.trustix.org2006-0061http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0061/
- www.securityfocus.com20061129 SYM06-023, Symantec NetBackup PureDisk: PHP update to Address Reported Security Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453024/100/0/threaded
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200703-21http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-21.xml
- www.securityfocus.com20061109 rPSA-2006-0205-1 php php-mysql php-pgsqlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451098/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com22713http://secunia.com/advisories/22713
- secunia.com22685http://secunia.com/advisories/22685
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-4317http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4317
- www.hardened-php.nethttp://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_132006.138.html
- www.cisco.com20070425 PHP HTML Entity Encoder Heap Overflow Vulnerability in Multiple Web-Based Management Interfaceshttp://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_security_response09186a008082c4fe.html
- issues.rpath.comhttp://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-761
- patches.sgi.com20061101-01-Pftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061101-01-P
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2006:067http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_67_php.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comphp-htmlentities-bo(29971)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29971
- secunia.com23155http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2006:196http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:196
- secunia.com25047http://secunia.com/advisories/25047
- securitytracker.com1017296http://securitytracker.com/id?1017296
- secunia.com22779http://secunia.com/advisories/22779
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0730http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0730.html
- www.securityfocus.com20879http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20879
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-375-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-375-1
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2006-11-28http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
- www.cisco.com20070425 Cisco Applied Intelligence Response: Identifying and Mitigating Exploitation of the PHP HTML Entity Encoder Heap Overflow Vulnerability in Multiple Web-Based Management Interfaceshttp://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-air-20070425-http.shtml
- www.us-cert.govTA06-333Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html
- www.openpkg.comOpenPKG-SA-2006.028http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.028.html
- secunia.com22929http://secunia.com/advisories/22929
- secunia.com22753http://secunia.com/advisories/22753
- support.avaya.comhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-245.htm
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10240https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10240
- secunia.com23139http://secunia.com/advisories/23139
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2006:0736http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0736.html
- www.php.nethttp://www.php.net/releases/5_2_0.php