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Debian: DSA-2266-1 php5 Moderate: Denial Of Service And Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2011
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Numerous security flaws in PHP5 may result in denial of service attacks or allow arbitrary code execution. It is recommended to update to a more secure version.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, which could lead to denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code

Summary

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, which could lead to
denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.

CVE-2010-2531

An information leak was found in the var_export() function.

CVE-2011-0421

The Zip module could crash.

CVE-2011-0708

An integer overflow was discovered in the Exif module.

CVE-2011-1466

An integer overflow was discovered in the Calendar module.

CVE-2011-1471

The Zip module was prone to denial of service through malformed
archives.

CVE-2011-2202

Path names in form based file uploads (RFC 1867) were incorrectly
validated.

This update also fixes two bugs, which are not treated as security
issues, but fixed nonetheless, see README.Debian.security for details
on the scope of security support for PHP (CVE-2011-0420, CVE-2011-1153).

For the oldstable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny12.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 5.3.3-7+squeeze3.

For the unstab...

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Package: php5
CVE ID: CVE-2010-2531 CVE-2011-0420 CVE-2011-0421 CVE-2011-0708

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