Title : Cisco Products PHP HTML Entity Encoder Remote Command Execution Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-1546 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5465
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-04-25
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in various Cisco products, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by buffer overflow errors in the PHP HTML entity encoder when processing malformed data passed to the "htmlentities()" and "htmlspecialchars()" functions, which could be exploited by authenticated attackers to compromise and affected system. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4317
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