Debian: DSA-3588-1: symfony security update

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Symfony, a PHP framework. CVE-2016-1902

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3588-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.%MINIFYHTML5775b393cd713067880bffeb157d65df13%https://www.debian.org/security/                            Luciano Bello
May 29, 2016                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : symfony
CVE ID         : CVE-2016-1902 CVE-2016-4423

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Symfony, a PHP framework. 

CVE-2016-1902

    Lander Brandt discovered that the class SecureRandom might generate
    weak random numbers for cryptographic use under certain settings. If
    the functions random_bytes() or openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() are not
    available, the output of SecureRandom should not be consider secure.

CVE-2016-4423

    Marek Alaksa from Citadelo discovered that it is possible to fill up
    the session storage space by submitting inexistent large usernames.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.3.21+dfsg-4+deb8u3.

For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.8.6+dfsg-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.8.6+dfsg-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your symfony packages.

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