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title: "CVE-2010-1860\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2010-1860

Publication date 7 May 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Low**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

The html\_entity\_decode function in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through
5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information
(memory contents) or trigger memory corruption by causing a userspace
interruption of an internal call, related to the call time pass by
reference feature.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2010-1860?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| php5 | 10.04 LTS lucid | Ignored |
| 9.10 karmic | Ignored |
| 9.04 jaunty | Ignored |
| 8.04 LTS hardy | Ignored |
| 6.06 LTS dapper | Ignored |

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## Notes

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### [mdeslaur](https://launchpad.net/~mdeslaur)

This is MOPS-2010-010
reproducer in report
interruption issue, safe\_mode - open\_basedir bypass, ignoring
See CVE-2010-1864 for patch

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-1860)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1860)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2010-1860)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-1860)

### Other references

* <http://php-security.org/2010/05/06/mops-2010-010-php-html_entity_decode-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html>
* <http://www.php.net/releases/5_3_3.php>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2010-1860>
