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Fedora 23: php-php-gettext Security Advisory - Critical Code Injection

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2016
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A recent security patch for php-php-gettext resolves vulnerabilities related to code injection and incorrect assumptions in the mbstring functionality on Fedora 23.
php-gettext 1.0.12 injection bug (LP#1515334) * Do not assume mbstring functions are always there, pass text through if they aren't (LP#734494)

Summary

This library provides PHP functions to read MO files even when gettext is

not compiled in or when appropriate locale is not present on the system.

Update Information:

php-gettext 1.0.12 ================== * Security fix for potential code injection bug (LP#1515334) * Do not assume mbstring functions are always there, pass text through if they aren't (LP#734494)

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1367462 - php-php-gettext: Arbitrary code execution in select_string, ngettext and npgettext count parameter https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1367462

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade php-php-gettext' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: php-php-gettext
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.0.12
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://launchpad.net/php-gettext
Summary: Gettext emulation in PHP

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