SuSE Update for php4, php5 SUSE-SA:2008:004

Impact
remote code execution
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
php5 was updated to version 5.2.5 to fix several security vulnerabilities. For php4 on SLES9 the patches were backported. - php4 on SLES9 and php5 on SLES10/10.1 contained a copy of the pcre library which was vulnerable to several security issues. On SLES9 the included library was patched. SLES10/10.1 now uses the system pcre library. 10.2 and 10.3 already used the system pcre library before. CVE-2006-7227 CVE-2006-7228 - flaws in processing multi byte sequences in htmlentities/htmlspecialchars CVE-2007-5898 - overly long arguments to the dl() function could crash php CVE-2007-4825 - overy long arguments to the glob() function could crash php CVE-2007-4782 - overly long arguments to some iconv functions could crash php CVE-2007-4840 - overy long arguments to the setlocale() function could crash php CVE-2007-4784 - the wordwrap-function could cause a floating point exception CVE-2007-3998 - overy long arguments to the fnmatch() function could crash php CVE-2007-4782 - incorrect size calculation in the chunk_split function could lead to a buffer overflow CVE-2007-4661 - flaws in the GD extension could lead to integer overflows CVE-2007-3996 - the money_format function contained format string flaws CVE-2007-4658
Affected
php4, php5 on SUSE LINUX 10.1, openSUSE 10.2, openSUSE 10.3, SUSE SLES 9, Novell Linux Desktop 9 SDK, Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux POS 9, SLE SDK 10 SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
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