[php-maint] new php5 packages for stable-security

sean finney seanius at debian.org
Mon Jul 2 22:10:59 UTC 2007


guess it's not too late to say "stop the presses"...

i realized earlier today that the php5 package for stable also needed the 
patch for CVE-2007-1864 which i provided in the php4 packages, so i've made
yet another update and sent it to the security queue.


	sean



On Sunday 01 July 2007 01:53:02 sean finney wrote:
> hey folks,
>
> to follow up on this morning's mail, i've now uploaded a new security
> update for php5 to the pub security upload queue.  this update fixes
> CVE-2007-1399/MOPB-16, which managed to slip through the mess of mopb fun
> from earlier updates.
>
> text from CVE-2007-1399:
>
>   Stack-based buffer overflow in the zip:// URL wrapper in PECL ZIP 1.8.3
> and earlier, as bundled with PHP 5.2.0 and 5.2.1, allows remote attackers
> to execute arbitrary code via a long zip:// URL, as demonstrated by
> actively triggering URL access from a remote PHP interpreter via avatar
> upload or blog pingback.
>
> also in this update is a fix to a regression in single quoting introduced
> by the php team's original fix for one of the previous CVE's.  in #422567
> someone was kind enough to dig up a fix, which has been tested and verified
> by a number of submitters.   at the time i didn't realize it was a
> regression in the security update and instead thought it was just general
> breakage in php, so i threw an upload with the fix at stable p-u, which was
> accepted, in case you're curious after reading the changelog or wondering
> where the previous version is when you go to debdiff.
>
> anyway, please let me know if you need any more information.
>
>
> 	sean


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