Security update for PHP4
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(Last modified: 21FEB2005)
solutions Security update for PHP4 SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (cb26dfd5c2e6259554ea496104a27638)
apache-mod_php4
apache2-mod_php4
mod_php4-core
php4-imap
php4-mysql
php4-session
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for Itanium Processor Family
Patch: patch-9881
Release: 20050221
Obsoletes: ae77fd5dd5c7926fed4a1e163ec0f644
aafa6d723ed65ff9f0a06d23d12770ce
416640c73799c273cb78008c7d2b1c88
02f7ca620fa47aed580ac78750ea5c52
/usr/share/doc/packages/php4/README.SuSE
for details.- 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).
- A bug in
readfile()
that could lead to denial of service.
- The
dlopen()
flag for opening php4 modules has been reverted back to RTLD_GLOBAL, as RTDL_LOCAL had some side effects when extensions likephp4-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 php4-imap.rpm php4-mysql.rpm php4-session.rpm
Please restart running applications using PHP4 (such as the web server) after the update.
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