oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7085

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7085
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7085
Title: HP-UX Running Apache with PHP, Remote Denial of Service (DoS), Unauthorized Access, Privileged Access, Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
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.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2009-4142
Version: 11
Platform(s): HP-UX 11
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