Debian: DSA 1330-1 Critical: PHP Remote Code Execution Risks Addressed
debian
July 7, 2007
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, a
server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language, which may lead to the
execution of arbitrary code
Topics Covered
Summary
CVE-2007-1864
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the xmlrpc extension
allows the execution of arbitrary code.
The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't include php5.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed
in version 5.2.0-8+etch7.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 5.2.2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your PHP packages. Packages for the little-endian Mips architecture are not yet available, due to problems on the
build host. They will be provided later.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the prop...
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