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[DSA115] DSA-115-1 php

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-115-1 php

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Stefan Esser, who is also a member of the PHP team, found several
flaws
in the way PHP handles multipart/form-data POST requests (as
described in RFC1867) known as POST fileuploads. Each of the flaws
could permit a possible hacker to execute arbitrary code on the victim's
system.
For PHP3 flaws contain a broken boundary check and an arbitrary heap
overflow. For PHP4 they consist of a broken boundary check and a heap
off by one error.
For the stable release of Debian these problems are fixed in version
3.0.18-0potato1.1 of PHP3 and version 4.0.3pl1-0potato3 of PHP4.
For the unstable and testing release of Debian these problems are
fixed in version 3.0.18-22 of PHP3 and version 4.1.2-1 of PHP4.
There is no PHP4 in the stable and unstable distribution for the arm
architecture due to a compiler error.
We recommend that you upgrade your PHP packages immediately.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-115
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 4183

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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