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Gentoo GLSA-200605-08 Critical: Risk of PHP Code Execution Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 8, 2006
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Critical PHP security notice GLSA 202310-12 for Gentoo users highlighting severe vulnerabilities.
PHP is affected by multiple issues, including a buffer overflow in wordwrap() which may lead to execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200605-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: May 08, 2006 Bugs: #127939, #128883, #131135 ID: 200605-08

Synopsis ======= PHP is affected by multiple issues, including a buffer overflow in wordwrap() which may lead to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-lang/php < 5.1.4 >= 5.1.4 *>= 4.4.2-r2
========== Several v...

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