php-5.3.3-27.AXS4

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages. PHP also offers built-in database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.

The php package contains the module which adds support for the PHP language to Apache HTTP Server.

Security issues fixed with this release:

• CVE-2006-7243

PHP before 5.3.4 accepts the character in a pathname, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by placing a safe file extension after this character, as demonstrated by .php.jpg at the end of the argument to the file_exists function.

• CVE-2013-1643

The SOAP parser in PHP before 5.3.23 and 5.4.x before 5.4.13 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a SOAP WSDL file containing an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue in the soap_xmlParseFile and soap_xmlParseMemory functions. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2013-1824.

• CVE-2013-4248

The openssl_x509_parse function in openssl.c in the OpenSSL module in PHP before 5.4.18 and 5.5.x before 5.5.2 does not properly handle a '' character in a domain name in the Subject Alternative Name field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification Authority, a related issue to CVE-2009-2408.

Fixed bugs:

• Previously, a virtual host on the Apache server could crash if the allow_call_time_pass_reference setting was disabled. This has been fixed.

• Previously, the fclose(), file_put_contents(), or copy() functions did not report their error, leading to potential dataloss. This has been fixed and they now report any error

• Previously, a buffer overflow occurred when some calls exceeded the 5 characters limit of the internal buffer for the SQLSTATE error code. This has been fixed and messages longer than 5 characters are replaced with the default "HY000" string.

Enhancement:

• Added the following rpm macros to the php package: %__php, %php_inidir, %php_incldir.