Package : php4 Vulnerability : several Problem type : local/remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-3799 CVE-2007-3806 CVE-2007-3998 CVE-2007-4657 CVE-2008-2051
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP version 4, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-3799
The session_start function allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary attributes into the session cookie via special characters in a cookie that is obtained from various parameters.
CVE-2007-3806
A denial of service was possible through a malicious script abusing the glob() function.
CVE-2007-3998
Certain maliciously constructed input to the wordwrap() function could lead to a denial of service attack.
CVE-2007-4657
Large len values of the stspn() or strcspn() functions could allow an attacker to trigger integer overflows to expose memory or cause denial of service.
CVE-2008-2051
The escapeshellcmd API function could be attacked via incomplete multibyte chars.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 6:4.4.4-8+etch6.
The php4 are no longer present the unstable distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your php4 package.
Upgrade instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch - -------------------------------