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Debian: DSA-1444-2 Critical: Remote PHP5 Regression Fix

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Calendar Grey January 23, 2008
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The latest Debian Security Notice DSA-1444-3 highlights a critical update for php5 packages, urging users to apply the updates promptly.
It was discovered that the patch for CVE-2007-4659 could lead to regressions in some scenarios

Summary


Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, a
server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:

CVE-2007-3799

It was discovered that the session_start() function allowed the
insertion of attributes into the session cookie.

CVE-2007-3998

Mattias Bengtsson and Philip Olausson discovered that a
programming error in the implementation of the wordwrap() function
allowed denial of service through an infinite loop.

CVE-2007-4658

Stanislav Malyshev discovered that a format string vulnerability
in the money_format() function could allow the execution of
arbitrary code.

CVE-2007-4659

Stefan Esser discovered that execution control flow inside the
zend_alter_ini_entry() function in handled incorrectly in case
of a memory limit violation.

CVE-2007-4660

Gerhard Wagner discovered an integer overflow inside the
chunk_split function().

CVE-...

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