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USN-99-2: Fixed php4 packages for USN-99-1

24 March 2005

Fixed php4 packages for USN-99-1

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Releases

Details

USN-99-1 fixed a safe mode bypass which allowed malicious PHP scripts
to circumvent path restrictions by creating a specially crafted
directory whose length exceeded the capacity of the realpath()
function (CAN-2004-1064). However, this caused severe regressions,
some applications like SquirrelMail and Gallery did not work any
more, and the package 'php4-pear' was empty. The current version
repairs this.

In addition this update fixes a crash of the PHP interpreter if
curl_init() was called with a non-string argument. Please note that
this is not security relevant since this condition usually cannot be
triggered externally.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 4.10
  • libapache2-mod-php4 -
  • php4-cgi -

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-99-1: php4-cgi, libapache2-mod-php4