php security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:0831-001

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache
HTTP Web server.

A bug was discovered in the PEAR XML-RPC Server package included in PHP. If
a PHP script is used which implements an XML-RPC Server using the PEAR
XML-RPC package, then it is possible for a remote attacker to construct an
XML-RPC request which can cause PHP to execute arbitrary PHP commands as
the ‘apache’ user. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
(cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-2498 to this issue.

When using the default SELinux “targeted” policy on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4, the impact of this issue is reduced since the scripts executed by
PHP are constrained within the httpd_sys_script_t security context.

Users of PHP should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain
backported fixes for these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-August/074269.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2005-August/074270.html

Affected packages:
php
php-bcmath
php-dba
php-devel
php-gd
php-imap
php-ldap
php-mbstring
php-mysql
php-ncurses
php-odbc
php-pear
php-pgsql
php-snmp
php-soap
php-xml
php-xmlrpc

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:748