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



Gentoo Linux Security Advisory [UPDATE] GLSA 200605-08:02
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Severity: High
Title: PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: May 08, 2006
Updated: July 24, 2006
Bugs: #127939, #128883, #131135, #133524
ID: 200605-08:02

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Update
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The initial fix did not properly fix the CVE-2006-1990 issue on 64 bit
systems.

The updated sections appear below.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-lang/php < 5.1.4 >= 5.1.4
*>= 4.4.2-r2
2 dev-lang/php < 5.1.4-r4 >= 5.1.4-r4
*>= 4.4.2-r6
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# Package 1 only applies to ARM, HPPA, PPC, S390, SH, SPARC, x86
and x86-FBSD users.
# Package 2 only applies to ALPHA, AMD64, IA64 and PPC64 users.
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2 affected packages; please see the notes above...
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Resolution
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All PHP users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-lang/php

Availability
============

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

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200605-08.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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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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