Patches slapped on serious PHP flaws

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I watch with interest

Read about it here :

http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-067.shtml

"PHP Development Team would like to announce the
immediate release of PHP 4.3.10. This is a maintenance
release that in addition to over 30 non-critical bug fixes
addresses several very serious security issues.

These include the following:

CAN-2004-1018 - shmop_write() out of bounds memory
write access.
CAN-2004-1018 - integer overflow/underflow in pack()
and unpack() functions.
CAN-2004-1019 - possible information disclosure, double
free and negative reference index array underflow in
deserialization code.
CAN-2004-1020 - addslashes() not escaping \0 correctly.
CAN-2004-1063 - safe_mode execution directory bypass.
CAN-2004-1064 - arbitrary file access through path
truncation.
CAN-2004-1065 - exif_read_data() overflow on long
sectionname. magic_quotes_gpc could lead to one level
directory traversal with file uploads. "

References CAN-2004-1018, CAN-2004-1020, CAN-2004-
1063, and CAN-2004-1064 were later rejected by CVE
because they were "not considered to be a serious security
issue"

"VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT: The risk is LOW"

That said I'm interested in how long it takes the community
supported Linux distributions to release a patch.
Particularly for me this is a real test for the Fedora Legacy
Project and Fedora Core 1 handed to it a few months ago.
The clock has started.

Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 12/17/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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