[ MDVSA-2008:127 ] - Updated PHP packages fix multiple vulne

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Updated PHP packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

A number of vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in PHP:

The htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() functions in PHP prior to
5.2.5 accepted partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact
and attack vectors (CVE-2007-5898).

The output_add_rewrite_var() function in PHP prior to 5.2.5 rewrites
local forms in which the ACTION attribute references a non-local URL,
which could allow a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive
information by reading the requests for this URL (CVE-2007-5899).

php-cgi in PHP prior to 5.2.6 does not properly calculate the length
of PATH_TRANSLATED, which has unknown impact and attack vectors
(CVE-2008-0599).

The escapeshellcmd() API function in PHP prior to 5.2.6 has unknown
impact and context-dependent attack vectors related to incomplete
multibyte characters (CVE-2008-2051).

Weaknesses in the GENERATE_SEED macro in PHP prior to 4.4.8 and 5.2.5
were discovered that could produce a zero seed in rare circumstances on
32bit systems and generations a portion of zero bits during conversion
due to insufficient precision on 64bit systems (CVE-2008-2107,
CVE-2008-2108).

The IMAP module in PHP uses obsolete API calls that allow
context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash)
via a long IMAP request (CVE-2008-2829).

In addition, this update also corrects an issue with some float to
string conversions.

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.