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Slackware 14.1: 2014-356-02 Critical PHP Security Fix Details

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Calendar Grey December 23, 2014
Dist Slackware Esm H88
Bolster your Slackware PHP distributions to rectify critical security flaws and maintain system integrity.
New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix security issues

Summary

Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/php-5.4.36-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. This update fixes bugs and security issues. #68545 (NULL pointer dereference in unserialize.c). #68594 (Use after free vulnerability in unserialize()). (CVE-2014-8142) #68283 (fileinfo: out-of-bounds read in elf note headers). (CVE-2014-3710) For more information, see: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3710 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8142 (* 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 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
Updated package for Slackware -current:
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:

MD5 Signatures

Slackware 14.0 package: d25a3e243ec1921b7ac321be40336251 php-5.4.36-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package: c374f5fef8a922ee1718232be4baefbf php-5.4.36-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package: 365000d20e974b045b2acc143ba6dfbe php-5.4.36-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package: 81fc269537befcc2fcb3be913588d8cc php-5.4.36-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package: bce0dc50b1430ed7a521b07795763922 n/php-5.4.36-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package: 6266e021adac91c16e68e61ee4bcdf9b n/php-5.4.36-x86_64-1.txz

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Installation Instructions

Installation instructions: Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg php-5.4.36-i486-1_slack14.1.txz Then, restart Apache httpd: # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd stop # /etc/rc.d/rc.httpd start

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