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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php (MDVSA-2010:254)

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This is a maintenance and security update that upgrades php to 5.3.4 for 2010.0/2010.1. Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.4 : - Paths with NULL in them (foo\0bar.txt) are now considered as invalid (CVE-2006-7243). - Fixed bug #53512 (NumberFormatter::setSymbol crash on bogus values) (CVE-2010-4409) Please note that CVE-2010-4150, CVE-2010-3870, CVE-2010-3436, CVE-2010-3709, CVE-2010-3710 were fixed in previous advisories. Key Bug Fixes in PHP 5.3.4 include : - Added stat support for zip stream. - Added follow_location (enabled by default) option for the http stream support. - Added a 3rd parameter to get_html_translation_table. It now takes a charset hint, like htmlentities et al. - Implemented FR #52348, added new constant ZEND_MULTIBYTE to detect zend multibyte at runtime. - Multiple improvements to the FPM SAPI. - Over 100 other bug fixes. Additional post 5.3.4 fixes : - Fixed bug #53517 (segfault in pgsql_stmt_execute() when postgres is down). - Fixed bug #53541 (format string bug in ext/phar). Additionally some of the PECL extensions has been upgraded and/or rebuilt for the new php version.


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