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Old 01-11-2011
Ubuntu: 1042-1: PHP vulnerabilities
LinuxSecurity.com: It was discovered that an integer overflow in the XML UTF-8 decodingcode could allow an attacker to bypass cross-site scripting (XSS)protections. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS,and Ubuntu 9.10. (CVE-2009-5016) [More...]

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xml_parser_set_option

XML_PARSER_SET_OPTION(3)						 1						  XML_PARSER_SET_OPTION(3)

xml_parser_set_option - Set options in an XML parser

SYNOPSIS

       bool xml_parser_set_option (resource  $parser, int  $option, mixed  $value)

DESCRIPTION

	Sets an option in an XML parser.

PARAMETERS

	      o $parser
		- A reference to the XML parser to set an option in.

	      o $option
		- Which option to set. See below.  The following options are available:

	      XML parser options

	      +---------------------------+--------------------------------------+---+
	      |     Option constant	  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |		 Data type		 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |		Description		 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      +---------------------------+--------------------------------------+---+
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING   |					 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |		  integer		 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |  Controls  whether	case-folding  is |   |
	      | 			  | enabled for this XML parser. Enabled |   |
	      | 			  | by default. 			 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | XML_OPTION_SKIP_TAGSTART  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |		  integer		 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |  Specify  how many characters should |   |
	      | 			  | be skipped in the beginning of a tag |   |
	      | 			  | name.				 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      |  XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE	  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |		  integer		 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |  Whether  to  skip values consisting |   |
	      | 			  | of whitespace characters.		 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      |XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING |					 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |		   string		 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      | 			  |  Sets which target encoding  to  use |   |
	      | 			  | in this XML parser.By default, it is |   |
	      | 			  | set to the same as the source encod- |   |
	      | 			  | ing  used  by  xml_parser_create(3). |   |
	      | 			  | Supported	target	 encodings   are |   |
	      | 			  | ISO-8859-1, US-ASCII and UTF-8.	 |   |
	      | 			  |					 |   |
	      +---------------------------+--------------------------------------+---+
	      o $value
		- The option's new value.

RETURN VALUES

	This  function	returns  FALSE	if $parser does not refer to a valid parser, or if the option could not be set. Else the option is set and
       TRUE is returned.

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