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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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