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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2527-1 php5 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

13 Aug 2012

Affected Packages:

php5

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-2688, CVE-2012-3450.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the web scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues:

• CVE-2012-2688

  A buffer overflow in the scandir() function could lead to denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

• CVE-2012-3450

  It was discovered that inconsistent parsing of PDO prepared statements could lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze14.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.4.4-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.