Gentoo: 200306-02 Critical: mod_php Integer Overflow Advisory

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-02
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From advisories:

"In PHP emalloc() function implements the error safe wrapper around malloc().
Unfortunately this function suffers from an integer overflow and
considering the fact that emalloc() is used in many places around PHP
source code, it may lead to many serious security issues."

"The function str_repeat(string input, int multiplier) returns input
repeated multiplier times.

The implementation of this function suffers from a simple integer overflow
caused by a very long second argument and could allow a local/remote
attacker in the worst case to gain control over the web server."

"The function array_pad(array input, int pad_size, mixed pad_value) returns
a copy of the input padded to size specified by pad_size w...
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