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Fedora 23 PHP Security Update 2016-46a34efa06 Critical Fixes

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Calendar Grey February 15, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Delve into the Fedora 23 PHP security patch that rectifies severe vulnerabilities and enhances performance for responsive web projects.
04 Feb 2016, **PHP 5.6.18** **Core:** * Fixed bug php#71039 (exec functions ignore length but look for NULL termination)

Summary

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it

easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP also

offers built-in database integration for several commercial and

non-commercial database management systems, so writing a

database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common

use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.

The php package contains the module (often referred to as mod_php)

which adds support for the PHP language to Apache HTTP Server.

Update Information:

04 Feb 2016, **PHP 5.6.18** **Core:** * Fixed bug php#71039 (exec functions ignore length but look for NULL termination). (Anatol) * Fixed bug php#71089 (No check to duplicate zend_extension). (Remi) * Fixed bug php#71201 (round() segfault on 64-bit builds). (Anatol) * Added support for new HTTP 451 code. (Julien) * Fixed bug php#71273 (A wrong ext directory setup in php.ini leads to crash). (Anatol) * Fixed bug php#71323 (Output of stream_get_meta_data can be falsified by its input). (Leo Gaspard) * Fixed bug php#71459 (Integer overflow in iptcembed()). (Stas) **Apache2handler:** * Fix >2G Content-Length headersin apache2handler. (Adam Harvey) **FTP:** * Implemented FR php#55651 (Option to ignore the returned FTP PASV address). (abrender at elitehosts dot com) **Opcache:** * Fixed bug php#71127 (Define in auto_prepend_file is overwrite). (Laruence) * Fixed bug php#71024 (Unable to use PHP 7.0 x64 side-by-side with PHP 5.6 x32 on the same server). (Anatol) **Phar:** * F...

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security advisory Fedora critical fix PHP HTTP code Core update dynamic web development

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-46a34efa06 2016-02-14 22:36:30.486497
Name : php Product : Fedora 23 Version : 5.6.18 Release : 1.fc23 URL : https://www.php.net/ Summary : PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites Description : PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.
The php package contains the module (often referred to as mod_php) which adds support for the PHP language to Apache HTTP Server.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update php' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: php
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 5.6.18
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://www.php.net/
Summary: PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora critical fix PHP HTTP code Core update dynamic web development

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