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Gentoo GLSA 200509-19 Normal: Remote Execution Risk in PHP Identified

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2005
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Critical PHP weaknesses highlighted in the Gentoo Linux bulletin GLSA 200509-19 require prompt measures to mitigate potential remote exploitation threats.
PHP makes use of an affected PCRE library and ships with an affected XML-RPC library and is therefore potentially vulnerable to remote execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200509-19 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: PHP: Vulnerabilities in included PCRE and XML-RPC libraries Date: September 27, 2005 Bugs: #102373 ID: 200509-19

Synopsis ======= PHP makes use of an affected PCRE library and ships with an affected XML-RPC library and is therefore potentially vulnerable to 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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