CVE-2006-1490

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 21.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-03-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

PHP: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+69)

References

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
http://cvs.php.net/viewcvs.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/html.c?view=log
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0276.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19383
http://secunia.com/advisories/19499
http://secunia.com/advisories/19570
http://secunia.com/advisories/19832
http://secunia.com/advisories/19979

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