Security update for PHP4
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(Last modified: 14JAN2005)
solutions Security update for PHP4 SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (b5002af82ab84dcd046d50ac0c81569f)
apache-mod_php4
apache2-mod_php4
mod_php4-core
mod_php4-servlet
php4-imap
php4-mysql
php4-servlet
php4-session
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for x86
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM POWER
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM S/390 31bit
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM zSeries 64bit
SUSE CORE 9 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
Patch: patch-9741
Release: 20050114
Obsoletes: eeaf995d80f550961f0fa0dd0465e21f
37379250bd51505211e0deac0ac10467
/usr/share/doc/packages/php4/README.SuSE
for details. This update fixes the following security issues:
- A bug that can be exploited by remote attackers to bypass HTML tag filtering (cross-site-scripting prevention) by supplying special tags. These kind of tags should be ignored because they are not valid but they get accepted by some commercial web-browsers.
- A bug that can be exploited by remote attackers by triggering the memory_limit in unsafe states of a PHP execution path to execute arbitrary code.
- Bugs caused by bad array parsing of the user input via GET, POST and COOKIE. One could lead to overwriting variable $_FILES, while the other could expose some pieces of the php memory to the attacker.
- A bug that could disclose php sourcecode in some circumstances.
- Various bugs in the unserializer (CAN-2004-1019)
- A buffer overflow in the exif parser (CAN-2004-1065)
- The
dlopen()
flag for opening php4 modules has been reverted back to RTLD_GLOBAL, as RTDL_LOCAL had some side effects when extensions like php4-unixODBC load their own libraries (unixODBC uses RTLD_GLOBAL). - Pre-Requires tags of some sub-packages have been tweaked to aid computing the uninstall order.
rpm -Fvh php4.rpm apache-mod_php4.rpm apache2-mod_php4.rpm mod_php4-core.rpm mod_php4-servlet.rpm php4-imap.rpm php4-mysql.rpm php4-servlet.rpm php4-session.rpm
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