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Gentoo: 200705-19 High Severity PHP Code Execution Threat Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2007
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Security flaws in PHP as noted in Gentoo GLSA 200705-19 may enable remote code execution attacks, impacting various releases.
PHP contains several vulnerabilities including buffer and integer overflows which could under certain conditions lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-19 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: May 26, 2007 Bugs: #169372 ID: 200705-19

Synopsis ======= PHP contains several vulnerabilities including buffer and integer overflows which could under certain conditions lead to the remote 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 < 5.2.2 *>= 4.4.7 >= 5.2.2
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