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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> php-announce
php-announce
[ANNOUNCE] PHP 5.2.2 and PHP 4.4.7 Released!
by Ilia Alshanetsky other posts by this author
May 3 2007 5:29PM messages near this date
[ANNOUNCE] PHP 5.2.3 Released | [ANNOUNCE] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: PHP 4.4.6 Released!
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The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate  
availability of PHP 5.2.2 and availability of PHP 4.4.7. These  
releases are major stability and security enhancements of the 5.x and  
4.4.x branches, and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to  
it as soon as possible. Further details about the PHP 5.2.2 release  
can be found in the release announcement for 5.2.2 (http:// 
www.php.net/releases/5_2_2.php). Details about the PHP 4.4.7 release  
can be found in the release announcement for 4.4.7 (http:// 
www.php.net/releases/4_4_7.php).

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.2 and PHP 4.4.7:

Fixed CVE-2007-1001, GD wbmp used with invalid image size (by Ivan  
Fratric)
Fixed asciiz byte truncation inside mail() (MOPB-33 by Stefan Esser)
Fixed a bug in mb_parse_str() that can be used to activate  
register_globals (MOPB-26 by Stefan Esser)
Fixed unallocated memory access/double free in in  
array_user_key_compare() (MOPB-24 by Stefan Esser)
Fixed a double free inside session_regenerate_id() (MOPB-22 by Stefan  
Esser)
Added missing open_basedir & safe_mode checks to zip:// and bzip://  
wrappers. (MOPB-21 by Stefan Esser).
Limit nesting level of input variables with max_input_nesting_level  
as fix for (MOPB-03 by Stefan Esser)
Fixed CRLF injection inside ftp_putcmd(). (by loveshell[at] 
Bug.Center.Team)
Fixed a possible super-global overwrite inside  
import_request_variables(). (by Stefano Di Paola, Stefan Esser)
Fixed a remotely trigger-able buffer overflow inside bundled  
libxmlrpc library. (by Stanislav Malyshev)
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.2 only:

Fixed a header injection via Subject and To parameters to the mail()  
function (MOPB-34 by Stefan Esser)
Fixed wrong length calculation in unserialize S type (MOPB-29 by  
Stefan Esser)
Fixed substr_compare and substr_count information leak (MOPB-14 by  
Stefan Esser) (Stas, Ilia)
Fixed a remotely trigger-able buffer overflow inside  
make_http_soap_request(). (by Ilia Alshanetsky)
Fixed a buffer overflow inside user_filter_factory_create(). (by Ilia  
Alshanetsky)
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 4.4.7 only:

XSS in phpinfo() (MOPB-8 by Stefan Esser)
While majority of the issues outlined above are local, in some  
circumstances given specific code paths they can be triggered  
externally. Therefor, we strongly recommend that if you use code  
utilizing the functions and extensions identified as having had  
vulnerabilities in them, you consider upgrading your PHP.



Ilia Alshanetsky
PHP 5.2 Release Master
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