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CVE-2006-1990

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-04-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the wordwrap function in string.c in PHP 4.4.2 and 5.1.2 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain long arguments that cause a small buffer to be allocated, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow in a memcpy function call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2002-1396.

Affected products

• PHP: 4.4.2, 5.1.2

References

• 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-2006-0549.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/19803
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20052
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20222
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20269
• http://secunia.com/advisories/20676
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21031
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21050
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21125

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