USN-1042-2: PHP5 regression

13 January 2011

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USN-1042-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PHP5. The fix for CVE-2010-3436
introduced a regression in the open_basedir restriction handling code.
This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that attackers might be able to bypass open_basedir()
restrictions by passing a specially crafted filename. (CVE-2010-3436)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 6.06
Ubuntu 10.10
Ubuntu 10.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.