{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2008-08-05T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "php: Heap-based buffer overflow in the mbstring extension via crafted string containing a HTML entity (arb code execution)",
    "id" : "478848",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478848"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-122",
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2009-04-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0337",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "php-0:4.3.2-51.ent"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2009-04-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0337",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "php-0:4.3.9-3.22.15"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2009-04-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0338",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "php-0:5.1.6-23.2.el5_3"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-5557\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5557" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-5557",
  "csaw" : false
}