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It was discovered that the wordwrap function did not correctly check lengths. Remote attackers could exploit this to cause a crash or monopolize CPU resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2007-3998) Integer overflows were discovered in the strspn and strcspn functions. Attackers could exploit this to read arbitrary areas of memory, possibly gaining access to sensitive information. (CVE-2007-4657) Stanislav Malyshev discovered that money_format function did not correctly handle certain tokens. If a PHP application were tricked into processing a bad format string, a remote attacker could execute arbitrary code with application privileges. (CVE-2007-4658) It was discovered that the php_openssl_make_REQ function did not correctly check buffer lengths. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted message and execute arbitrary code with application privileges. (CVE-2007-4662) It was discovered that certain characters in session cookies were not handled correctly. A remote attacker could injection values which could lead to altered application behavior, potentially gaining additional privileges. (CVE-2007-3799) Gerhard Wagner discovered that the chunk_split function did not correctly handle long strings. A remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with application privileges. (CVE-2007-2872, CVE-2007-4660, CVE-2007-4661) Stefan Esser discovered that deeply nested arrays could be made to fill stack space. A remote attacker could exploit this to cause a crash or monopolize CPU resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2007-1285, CVE-2007-4670) Rasmus Lerdorf discovered that the htmlentities and htmlspecialchars functions did not correctly stop when handling partial multibyte sequences. A remote attacker could exploit this to read certain areas of memory, possibly gaining access to sensitive information. (CVE-2007-5898) It was discovered that the output_add_rewrite_var fucntion would sometimes leak session id information to forms targeting remote URLs. Malicious remote sites could use this information to gain access to a PHP application user's login credentials. (CVE-2007-5899)

php5 vulnerabilities on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS , Ubuntu 6.10 , Ubuntu 7.04 , Ubuntu 7.10

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2007-November/000631.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25