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Debian Security Advisory DSA 708-1 security_at_debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 15th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : php3
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : local (remote)
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0525
Debian Bug : 302701
An iDEFENSE researcher discovered two problems in the image processing
functions of PHP, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language, of
which one is present in PHP3 as well. When reading a JPEG image, PHP
can be tricked into an endless loop due to insufficient input
validation.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.18-23.1woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.0.18-31.
We recommend that you upgrade your php3 package.
Upgrade Instructions
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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 3.0 alias woody
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