A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities. Here the announcement:

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200811-05
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: Normal
Title: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 16, 2008
Bugs: #209148, #212211, #215266, #228369, #230575, #234102
ID: 200811-05

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Synopsis
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PHP contains several vulnerabilities including buffer and integer
overflows which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is
especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-lang/php < 5.2.6-r6 >=3D 5.2.6-r6

Description
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Several vulnerabilitites were found in PHP:

* PHP ships a vulnerable version of the PCRE library which allows for
the circumvention of security restrictions or even for remote code
execution in case of an application which accepts user-supplied
regular expressions (CVE-2008-0674).

* Multiple crash issues in several PHP functions have been
discovered.

* Ryan Permeh reported that the init_request_info() function in
sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c does not properly consider operator precedence
when calculating the length of PATH_TRANSLATED (CVE-2008-0599).

* An off-by-one error in the metaphone() function may lead to memory
corruption.

* Maksymilian Arciemowicz of SecurityReason Research reported an
integer overflow, which is triggerable using printf() and related
functions (CVE-2008-1384).

* Andrei Nigmatulin reported a stack-based buffer overflow in the
FastCGI SAPI, which has unknown attack vectors (CVE-2008-2050).

* Stefan Esser reported that PHP does not correctly handle multibyte
characters inside the escapeshellcmd() function, which is used to
sanitize user input before its usage in shell commands
(CVE-2008-2051).

* Stefan Esser reported that a short-coming in PHP's algorithm of
seeding the random number generator might allow for predictible
random numbers (CVE-2008-2107, CVE-2008-2108).

* The IMAP extension in PHP uses obsolete c-client API calls making
it vulnerable to buffer overflows as no bounds checking can be done
(CVE-2008-2829).

* Tavis Ormandy reported a heap-based buffer overflow in
pcre_compile.c in the PCRE version shipped by PHP when processing
user-supplied regular expressions (CVE-2008-2371).

* CzechSec reported that specially crafted font files can lead to an
overflow in the imageloadfont() function in ext/gd/gd.c, which is
part of the GD extension (CVE-2008-3658).

* Maksymilian Arciemowicz of SecurityReason Research reported that a
design error in PHP's stream wrappers allows to circumvent safe_mode
checks in several filesystem-related PHP functions (CVE-2008-2665,
CVE-2008-2666).

* Laurent Gaffie discovered a buffer overflow in the internal
memnstr() function, which is used by the PHP function explode()
(CVE-2008-3659).

* An error in the FastCGI SAPI when processing a request with
multiple dots preceding the extension (CVE-2008-3660).

Impact
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These vulnerabilities might allow a remote attacker to execute
arbitrary code, to cause a Denial of Service, to circumvent security
restrictions, to disclose information, and to manipulate files.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All PHP users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=3Ddev-lang/php-5.2.6-r6"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-0599
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-0599
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-0674
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-0674
[ 3 ] CVE-2008-1384
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-1384
[ 4 ] CVE-2008-2050
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-2050
[ 5 ] CVE-2008-2051
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-2051
[ 6 ] CVE-2008-2107
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-2107
[ 7 ] CVE-2008-2108
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-2108
[ 8 ] CVE-2008-2371
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-2371
[ 9 ] CVE-2008-2665
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-2665
[ 10 ] CVE-2008-2666
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-2666
[ 11 ] CVE-2008-2829
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-2829
[ 12 ] CVE-2008-3658
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-3658
[ 13 ] CVE-2008-3659
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-3659
[ 14 ] CVE-2008-3660
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2008-3660

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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