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[CIA-1054-Alert] PHP Multiple Vulnerabilities
Summary:
A new version of PHP was released that fixes several security issues.
Technical Details:
Several vulnerabilities were reported in PHP that permit Cross-Site Scripting and other attacks. PHP version 5.1.3 resolves the following security issues
- Disallow certain characters in session names.
- Fixed a buffer overflow inside the wordwrap() function.
- Prevent jumps to parent directory via the 2nd parameter of the tempnam() function.
- Enforce safe_mode for the source parameter of the copy() function.
- Fixed cross-site scripting inside the phpinfo() function.
- Fixed offset/length parameter validation inside the substr_compare() function.
- Fixed a heap corruption inside the session extension.
- Fixed a bug that would allow variable to survive unset()."
Solution:
Upgrade to PHP 5.1.3
CVE Reference:
CVE-2006-3016
CVE-2006-3017
CVE-2006-3018
SecurityTracker Number(s):
1016306
Vendor URL:
http://www.php.net
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