Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a general-purpose scripting language commonly used for web application development. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues: CVE-2013-6420 Stefan Esser reported possible memory corruption in openssl_x509_parse(). CVE-2013-6712 Creating DateInterval objects from parsed ISO dates was not properly restricted, which allowed to cause a denial of service. In addition, the update for Debian 7 Wheezy contains several bugfixes originally targeted for the upcoming Wheezy point release.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze18. For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 5.4.4-14+deb7u7. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 5.5.6+dfsg-2. We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.

This package is a metapackage that, when installed, guarantees that you have at least one of the three server-side versions of the PHP5 interpreter installed. Removing this package won't remove PHP5 from your system, however it may remove other packages that depend on this one.

php5 on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2816.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25