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Debian: DSA-2399-2 Important: PHP5 Regression Issue Resolved Now

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2012
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4300-1 addresses vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. Update your OpenSSL packages to maintain security compliance.
A regression was found in the fix for PHP's XSLT transformations (CVE-2012-0057)

Summary

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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Package: php5
CVE ID: CVE-2011-1938 CVE-2011-2483 CVE-2011-4566 CVE-2011-4885

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