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Gentoo: GLSA-200412-14 High: PHP Multiple Issues with Remote Risk

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Calendar Grey December 19, 2004
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Critical security alert for Gentoo users concerning several PHP flaws that may enable remote code execution.
Several vulnerabilities were found and fixed in PHP, ranging from an information leak and a safe_mode restriction bypass to a potential remote execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200412-14 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: December 19, 2004 Bugs: #74547 ID: 200412-14

Synopsis ======= Several vulnerabilities were found and fixed in PHP, ranging from an information leak and a safe_mode restriction bypass to a potential remote execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= PHP is a general-purpose scripting language widely used to develop web-based applications. It can run inside a web server using the mod_php module or the CGI version of PHP, or can run stand-alone in a CLI.
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