[ MDVSA-2010:009 ] php

[dude67]

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Package : php
Date : January 15, 2010
Affected: 2009.1, 2010.0
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Problem Description:

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in php:

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 (CVE-2009-4142).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2009-4142
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