Debian: DSA-2816-1 Urgent: PHP Vulnerabilities Require Immediate Action
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December 12, 2013
Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development
Summary
CVE-2013-6420
Stefan Esser reported possible memory corruption in
openssl_x509_parse().
CVE-2013-6712
Creating DateInterval objects from parsed ISO dates was
not properly restricted, which allowed to cause a
denial of service.
In addition, the update for Debian 7 "Wheezy" contains several bugfixes
originally targeted for the upcoming Wheezy point release.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.3.3-7+squeeze18.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.4.4-14+deb7u7.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 5.5.6+dfsg-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/
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