Debian: DSA-2001-1 Critical: PHP5 Remote Memory Safety Issue

CVE-2009-4142

The htmlspecialchars function does not properly handle invalid
multi-byte sequences.

CVE-2009-4143

Memory corruption via session interruption.

In the stable distribution (lenny), this update also includes bug fixes
(bug #529278, #556459, #565387, #523073) that were to be included in a
stable point release as version 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny5.


For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny6.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid),
these problems have been fixed in version 5.2.12.dfsg.1-1.


We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.

Upgrade instructions
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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 ...