Secunia Security Advisory - Some vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP, where some have an unknown impact an others can potentially be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
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TITLE:
PHP Multiple Vulnerabilities
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34081
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34081/
DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP, where some have an
unknown impact an others can potentially be exploited by malicious
people to disclose sensitive information or cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).
1) An error within the "imagerotate()" function can be exploited to
read arbitrary memory.
2) An unspecified error in the zip functionality can be exploited to
cause a crash when file or directory entry names contain a relative
path.
3) A vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
"explode()" function. No further information is currently available.
4) An unspecified error exists when processing malformed strings
passed to "json_decode()". No further information is currently
available.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.2.9.
http://www.php.net/downloads.php
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Hamid Ebadi, APA Laboratory.
2 - 4) Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_9.php
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