CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:0705-001

Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 php - security update

This CESA is for the version of php is that is included in the centosplus repo for CentOS-4 ... this is not an update to the main CentOS-4 repo.

-------------------------- Name : php Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 5.0.4 Vendor: CentOS Release : 2.centos4 Build Date: 05Jul2005 04:15:18PM CDT Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: x8664-build Group : Development/Languages Source RPM : php-5.0.4-2.centos4.src.rpm Packager : Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org URL : http://www.php.net/ Summary : The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language. ------------------------ Update Information:

This update is considered critical by the CentOS Development Team, and exploitation of the vulnerability can lead to remote code execution. Anyone using php-5 from the centosplus repo is highly encouraged to upgrade their installation immediately.

This update includes the PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.1 package, which fixes a security issue in the XML_RPC server implementation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-1921 to this issue.

The bundled version of shtool is also updated, to fix some temporary file handling races. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-1751 to this issue.

Bug fixes for the dom, ldap, and gd extensions are also included in this update. ------------------------ References: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1921

http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-1751

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2005-July/msg00011.html

------------------------ The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors:

x86_64: php-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-bcmath-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-dba-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-devel-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-gd-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-imap-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-ldap-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-mbstring-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-mysql-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-ncurses-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-odbc-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-pear-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-pgsql-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-snmp-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-soap-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-xml-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm php-xmlrpc-5.0.4-2.centos4.x86_64.rpm

src: php-5.0.4-2.centos4.src.rpm