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Slackware 14.0: 2013-242-02 Critical PHP Security Issue Fix

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2013
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Updated PHP packages for Slackware 14.0 have been released to resolve significant security vulnerabilities and improve overall system performance with essential bug corrections.
New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, and -current to fix a security issue

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.0 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.4.19-i486-1_slack14.0.txz: Upgraded. Fixed handling null bytes in subjectAltName (CVE-2013-4248). For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4248 (* Security fix *)

Where Find New Packages

Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (https://osuosl.org/) for donating 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 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: 36ea4e45512c962948deddf695238785 php-5.4.19-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: 54fa9c4170edebe732c17a859c55c573 php-5.4.19-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware -current package: b984f8b2323d962e2689485111040430 n/php-5.4.19-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: c3bb32c6ea600e5f0a44a927e03a7717 n/php-5.4.19-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg php-5.4.19-i486-1_slack14.0.txz Then, restart Apache httpd: # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd stop # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start

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