Slackware 12.1 Commitment: Critical Php Security Fix Addresses Major Issues
slackware
December 5, 2008
New php packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues, as well as make improvements and fix bugs
Summary
Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to php-5.2.7. In addition to improvements and bug fixes, this new version of PHP also addresses several security issues, including: Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658). Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659). Fixed security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666. Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots). (Fixes CVE-2008-3660). rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow. (Fixes CVE-2008-2829). Fixed extraction of zip files or directories when the entry name is a relative path: These are the URLs to get more information: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2665 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2666 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2829 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3658 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3659
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Where Find New Packages
HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com?
Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site
for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading
directly from ftp.slackware.com.
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(https://osuosl.org/) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://www.slackware.com/ for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 12.0:
Updated package for Slackware 12.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
MD5 Signatures
Slackware 12.0 package:
1071fdbd8fde6ca39578e7a029485a4c php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz
Slackware 12.1 package:
09d2f0859b8ba82b0f928fbd6d007777 php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz
Slackware -current package:
9ebfcd7d7272ead19f6c1fbaa88b793a php-5.2.7-i486-1.tgz
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Installation Instructions
Installation instructions: Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Then, restart the web server.
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