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Gentoo GLSA-200710-02 High: PHP Execution Risks and Denial of Service

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Critical vulnerabilities in PHP on Gentoo have been identified, allowing remote code execution and Denial of Service risks. Users should patch systems immediately
PHP contains several vulnerabilities including buffer and integer overflows which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200710-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: October 07, 2007 Bugs: #179158, #180556, #191034 ID: 200710-02

Synopsis ======= PHP contains several vulnerabilities including buffer and integer overflows which could 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 < 5.2.4_p20070914-r2 >= 5.2.4_p20070914-r2
========== Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP. Mattias Bengtsson and ...

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