Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.63632
Category:	FreeBSD Local Security Checks
Title:	FreeBSD Ports: php4-mbstring
Summary:	FreeBSD Ports: php4-mbstring
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory. The following packages are affected: php4-mbstring php5-mbstring CVE-2008-5557 Heap-based buffer overflow in ext/mbstring/libmbfl/filters/mbfilter_htmlent.c in the mbstring extension in PHP 4.3.0 through 5.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string containing an HTML entity, which is not properly handled during Unicode conversion, related to the (1) mb_convert_encoding, (2) mb_check_encoding, (3) mb_convert_variables, and (4) mb_parse_str functions. Solution: Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
Cross-Ref:	BugTraq ID: 32948 Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5557 Bugtraq: 20090302 rPSA-2009-0035-1 php php-cgi php-imap php-mcrypt php-mysql php-mysqli php-pgsql php-soap php-xsl php5 php5-cgi php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-pear php5-pgsql php5-soap php5-xsl (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/501376/100/0/threaded http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-12/0477.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html Debian Security Information: DSA-1789 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1789 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01451.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg01465.html HPdes Security Advisory: HPSBUX02431 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 HPdes Security Advisory: SSRT090085 HPdes Security Advisory: HPSBUX02465 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2 HPdes Security Advisory: SSRT090192 HPdes Security Advisory: HPSBMA02492 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02029444 HPdes Security Advisory: SSRT100079 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:045 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0350.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:004 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2009:008 (Google Search) http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00003.html Cert/CC Advisory: TA09-133A http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32948 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10286 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021482 http://secunia.com/advisories/34642 http://secunia.com/advisories/35003 http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 http://secunia.com/advisories/35306 http://secunia.com/advisories/35650 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 XForce ISS Database: php-multibyte-bo(47525) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/47525
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