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Mandriva: Updated PHP packages fix multiple vulnerabilities Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake A number of vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in PHP: PHP 5.2.1 would allow context-dependent attackers to read portions of heap memory by executing certain scripts with a serialized data input string beginning with 'S:', which did not properly track the number of input bytes being processed (CVE-2007-1649).
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2008:126
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : php
 Date    : July 3, 2008
 Affected: 2007.1
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Problem Description:
 
 A number of vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in PHP:
 
 PHP 5.2.1 would allow context-dependent attackers to read portions
 of heap memory by executing certain scripts with a serialized data
 input string beginning with 'S:', which did not properly track the
 number of input bytes being processed (CVE-2007-1649).
 
 A vulnerability in the chunk_split() function in PHP prior to 5.2.4
 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to an incorrect size
 calculation (CVE-2007-4660).
 
 The htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() functions in PHP prior to
 5.2.5 accepted partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact
 and attack vectors (CVE-2007-5898).
 
 The output_add_rewrite_var() function in PHP prior to 5.2.5 rewrites
 local forms in which the ACTION attribute references a non-local URL,
 which could allow a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive
 information by reading the requests for this URL (CVE-2007-5899).
 
 The escapeshellcmd() API function in PHP prior to 5.2.6 has unknown
 impact and context-dependent attack vectors related to incomplete
 multibyte characters (CVE-2008-2051).
 
 Weaknesses in the GENERATE_SEED macro in PHP prior to 4.4.8 and 5.2.5
 were discovered that could produce a zero seed in rare circumstances on
 32bit systems and generations a portion of zero bits during conversion
 due to insufficient precision on 64bit systems (CVE-2008-2107,
 CVE-2008-2108).
 
 The IMAP module in PHP uses obsolete API calls that allow
 context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
 via a long IMAP request (CVE-2008-2829).
 
 The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 References:
 
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1649
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4660
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5898
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5899
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2051
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2107
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2108
 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2829
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Updated Packages:
 
 Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
 a316408737eaf14cb5728521e26dc446  2007.1/i586/libphp5_common5-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 269a3fc71e4e6a17b430d30e74823dca  2007.1/i586/php-cgi-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 d840c24a91806daab679185222766687  2007.1/i586/php-cli-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 d034af9be26232c573cca06db1692a42  2007.1/i586/php-devel-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 85c65924946fa451bd74f6f51dbfcae8  2007.1/i586/php-fcgi-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 d6489ed1c6d4e7a35793dd5a5fe4dabd  2007.1/i586/php-imap-5.2.1-1.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 1e478e16e65af0176da924ed73dea263  2007.1/i586/php-openssl-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
 4a84f4f8b64881333e706554bb26c8a2  2007.1/i586/php-zlib-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.i586.rpm 
 48bdf497322e9b5286a74374d0e1b460  2007.1/SRPMS/php-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.src.rpm
 259d657e68e17b093fa76d29b5e5499d  2007.1/SRPMS/php-imap-5.2.1-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

 Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
 e1c817b7c6b806131a4311493fe45707  2007.1/x86_64/lib64php5_common5-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 226211fdeb224123af811eb4468362e3  2007.1/x86_64/php-cgi-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 14e05c3865244c7e9f352bac59268ca3  2007.1/x86_64/php-cli-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 7e8f6a34863eb897cc6391909ff893ce  2007.1/x86_64/php-devel-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 8f434207ce93f4e4a20d85b45aaa4093  2007.1/x86_64/php-fcgi-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 38445ba58c456587fc010dcfe2125030  2007.1/x86_64/php-imap-5.2.1-1.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 46f2b06e38148ca0abe2dbb42f6b4a03  2007.1/x86_64/php-openssl-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
 83ce7f229b34c075650cfb92fc795f1d  2007.1/x86_64/php-zlib-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm 
 48bdf497322e9b5286a74374d0e1b460  2007.1/SRPMS/php-5.2.1-4.4mdv2007.1.src.rpm
 259d657e68e17b093fa76d29b5e5499d  2007.1/SRPMS/php-imap-5.2.1-1.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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