Description: | PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Web server.
The Hardened-PHP Project discovered an overflow in the PHP htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() routines. If a PHP script used the vulnerable functions to parse UTF-8 data, a remote attacker sending a carefully crafted request could trigger the overflow and potentially execute arbitrary code as the 'apache' user. (CVE-2006-5465)
Users of PHP should upgrade to these updated packages which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
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