news 28 Posted December 5, 2008 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] php (SSA:2008-339-01) New php packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix security issues, as well as make improvements and fix bugs. Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to php-5.2.7. In addition to improvements and bug fixes, this new version of PHP also addresses several security issues, including: Fixed a crash inside gd with invalid fonts (Fixes CVE-2008-3658). Fixed a possible overflow inside memnstr (Fixes CVE-2008-3659). Fixed security issues detailed in CVE-2008-2665 and CVE-2008-2666. Crash with URI/file..php (filename contains 2 dots). (Fixes CVE-2008-3660). rfc822.c legacy routine buffer overflow. (Fixes CVE-2008-2829). Fixed extraction of zip files or directories when the entry name is a relative path: http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-06.txt These are the URLs to get more information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2665 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2666 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2829 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3658 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3659 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3660 http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-06.txt (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/php-5.2.7-i486-1.tgz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 12.0 package: 1071fdbd8fde6ca39578e7a029485a4c php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: 09d2f0859b8ba82b0f928fbd6d007777 php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Slackware -current package: 9ebfcd7d7272ead19f6c1fbaa88b793a php-5.2.7-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the packages as root: # upgradepkg php-5.2.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Then, restart the web server. +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
