[ MDVSA-2009:023 ] php

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A vulnerability in PHP allowed context-dependent attackers to cause
a denial of service (crash) via a certain long string in the glob()
or fnmatch() functions (CVE-2007-4782).

A vulnerability in the cURL library in PHP allowed context-dependent
attackers to bypass safe_mode and open_basedir restrictions and read
arbitrary files using a special URL request (CVE-2007-4850).

An integer overflow in PHP allowed context-dependent attackers to
cause a denial of serivce via a special printf() format parameter
(CVE-2008-1384).

A stack-based buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI in PHP has unknown
impact and attack vectors (CVE-2008-2050).

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team discovered a heap-based
buffer overflow when compiling certain regular expression patterns.
This could be used by a malicious attacker by sending a specially
crafted regular expression to an application using the PCRE library,
resulting in the possible execution of arbitrary code or a denial of
service (CVE-2008-2371). PHP in Corporate Server 4.0 is affected by
this issue.

A buffer overflow in the imageloadfont() function in PHP allowed
context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
and potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted font file
(CVE-2008-3658).

A buffer overflow in the memnstr() function allowed context-dependent
attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and potentially execute
arbitrary code via the delimiter argument to the explode() function
(CVE-2008-3659).

PHP, when used as a FastCGI module, allowed remote attackers to cause
a denial of service (crash) via a request with multiple dots preceding
the extension (CVE-2008-3660).

An array index error in the imageRotate() function in PHP allowed
context-dependent attackers to read the contents of arbitrary memory
locations via a crafted value of the third argument to the function
for an indexed image (CVE-2008-5498).

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2007-4782
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2007-4850
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-1384
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-2050
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-2371
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-3658
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-3659
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-3660
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cg ... -2008-5498
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