PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201503-03

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the worst of which could lead to remote execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

dev-lang/php on all architectures
Affected versions < 5.5.21
Unaffected versions >= 5.5.21
revision >= 5.4.37
revision >= 5.4.38
revision >= 5.4.39
revision >= 5.4.40
revision >= 5.4.41
revision >= 5.4.42
revision >= 5.4.43
revision >= 5.4.44
revision >= 5.4.45

Background

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker can leverage these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PHP 5.5 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/php-5.5.21"
 

All PHP 5.4 users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/php-5.4.37"
 

All PHP 5.3 users should upgrade to the latest version. This branch is currently past the end of life and it will no longer receive security fixes. All PHP 5.3 users are strongly recommended to upgrade to the current stable version of PHP 5.5 or previous stable version of PHP 5.4, which are supported till at least 2016 and 2015 respectively.

References

Release date
March 08, 2015

Latest revision
August 22, 2015: 2

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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