-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200301-8 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : mod_php php SUMMARY : buffer overflow DATE : 2003-01-13 15:01 UTC EXPLOIT : remote - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From advisory: "If you use the wordwrap() function on user-supplied input, a specially-crafted input can overflow the allocated buffer and overwrite the heap. Exploit looks very difficult, but still theoretically possible." Read the full advisory at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104102689503192&w=2 SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running dev-php/php-4.2.3 and/or dev-php/mod_php-4.2.3 or earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge php and/or emerge mod_php finish with: emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz rphillipsat_private - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ItSXfT7nyhUpoZMRAkmYAKCU00hustnHo69YNYw0IwNezKQN7wCfWs9r UPRKjcVEmXPuN6zq7wjSLYc= =0qtv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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