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.
Published: 2006-04-24
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-1990 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-320-1 PHP vulnerabilities
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ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060701-01-U cve-icon cve-icon
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0549.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/19803 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20052 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20222 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20269 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/20676 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21031 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21050 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21125 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21135 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21252 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21564 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/21723 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/22225 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 cve-icon cve-icon
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-08.xml cve-icon cve-icon
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015979 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-160.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-175.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.infigo.hr/en/in_focus/advisories/INFIGO-2006-04-02 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:091 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:122 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_31_php.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0501.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0568.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447866/100/0/threaded cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2006/TLSA-2006-38.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-320-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1500 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 cve-icon cve-icon
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26001 cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-683 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1990 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9696 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-1990 cve-icon
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Php Php
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Stronghold
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:35:31.136Z

Reserved: 2006-04-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-1990

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-04-24T23:02:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-1990

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2006-04-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-1990 - Bugzilla

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