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Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory: php update

Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:35:56 -0700
From: Linux Mandrake Security Team security@linux-mandrake.com
To: Linux Mandrake Security Announcements
Subject: [Security Announce] MDKSA-2001:013 – php update


                Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory


Package name:           php
Date:                   January 18th, 2001
Advisory ID:            MDKSA-2001:013

Affected versions:      7.2

Problem Description:

There are two security problems with php4 as shipped in
Linux-Mandrake 7.2. It is possible to specify PHP directives on a
per-directory basis under Apache and a remote attacker could
carefully craft an HTTP request that would cause the next page to
be served with the wrong values for these directives. The second
problem is that although PHP may be installed, it can be activated
and deactivated on a per- directory or per-virtual host basis using
the “engine=on” or “engine=off” directive. PHP can “leak” the
“engine=off” setting to other virtual hosts on the same machine,
effectively disabling PHP for those hosts and resulting in PHP
source code being sent to the client instead of being executed on
the server. These vulnerabilities are corrected in PHP
4.0.4pl1.


Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the
integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the
command:
rpm –checksig package.rpm
You can get the GPG public key of the Linux-Mandrake Security Team
at
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/RPM-GPG-KEYS

If you use MandrakeUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG
signature is performed automatically for you.

Linux-Mandrake 7.2:
f54b0ce745c1903794522b04eba99576
7.2/RPMS/mod_php-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
c39a3f03e58b3234af7f95e0b1ebbb4d
7.2/RPMS/php-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
b74cd72804ec86a6287dcee0c938eb1a
7.2/RPMS/php-dba_gdbm_db2-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
d29d2c054274a98726da22c2fa2e02c6
7.2/RPMS/php-devel-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
c20961189744753ee91a6fd834a937c0
7.2/RPMS/php-gd-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
e9d3312f15355741243450c7d74872d9
7.2/RPMS/php-imap-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
a68b22849371aaf36fa8e3c1d549dbbf
7.2/RPMS/php-ldap-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
ff06eb076f3e8673b39dc5f260320ee7
7.2/RPMS/php-manual-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
70dc4d1e9175a7ec6dfa1647e7db81ba
7.2/RPMS/php-mysql-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
91f93f9f40b4aa44774a35af508ce17a
7.2/RPMS/php-pgsql-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
4f67c0695fa61c1d76f1cba399441398
7.2/RPMS/php-readline-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.i586.rpm
81e7aae1084066990f95a82a2fd07d26
7.2/SRPMS/php-4.0.4pl1-1.1mdk.src.rpm


To upgrade automatically, use
<<MandrakeUpdate>>.

If you want to upgrade manually, download the updated package
from one of our FTP server mirrors and uprade with “rpm -Uvh
package_name”.

You can download the updates directly from:

ftp://ftp.linux.tucows.com/pub/distributions/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates

ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandrake/updates

Or try one of the other mirrors listed at:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3.

Updated packages are available in the “updates/[ver]/RPMS/”
directory. For example, if you are looking for an updated RPM
package for Linux-Mandrake 7.1, look for it in “updates/7.1/RPMS/”.
Updated source RPMs are available as well, but you generally do not
need to download them.

Please be aware that sometimes it takes the mirrors a few hours
to update, so if you want an immediate upgrade, please use one of
the two above-listed mirrors.

You can view other security advisories for Linux-Mandrake
at:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security@linux-mandrake.com


Linux-Mandrake has two security-related mailing list services
that anyone can subscribe to:

security-announce@linux-mandrake.com

Linux-Mandrake’s security announcements mailing list. Only
announcements are sent to this list and it is read-only.

security-discuss@linux-mandrake.com

Linux-Mandrake’s security discussion mailing list. This list is
open to anyone to discuss Linux-Mandrake security specifically and
Linux security in general.

To subscribe to either list, send a message to sympa@linux-mandrake.com with
“subscribe [listname]” in the body of the message.

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“info [listname]” in the body of the message.

Optionally, you can use the web interface to subscribe to or
unsubscribe from either list:

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3#security

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