Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the web scripting
language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies
the following issues:
CVE-2011-1938
The UNIX socket handling allowed attackers to trigger a buffer overflow
via a long path name.
CVE-2011-2483
The crypt_blowfish function did not properly handle 8-bit characters,
which made it easier for attackers to determine a cleartext password
by using knowledge of a password hash.
CVE-2011-4566
When used on 32 bit platforms, the exif extension could be used to
trigger an integer overflow in the exif_process_IFD_TAG function
when processing a JPEG file.
CVE-2011-4885
It was possible to trigger hash collisions predictably when parsing
form parameters, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service by sending many crafted parameters.
CVE-2012-0057
When applying a crafted XSLT transform, an attacker could write files
to arbitrary places in the filesystem.
NOTE: the fix for CVE-2011-2483 requi...
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