Darren Davison wrote:

> rkhunter is reporting PHP (4.3.10) as "Vulnerable" on my server.  I've
> seen no GLSA's about it but 4.3.11 came out a week or so ago purporting
> to fix some minor security issues [1].  It looks like at least two of
> those minor issues are DoS attacks [2].
> 
> There are a couple of bugs open in bugzilla, but one of the PHP
> maintainers seems a bit reluctant to update the ebuild (some obscure
> reference to the "state of PHP" and busy at Uni).
> 
> Does anyone know if these security issues/DoS are remotely exploitable
> or potentially serious?  I use it for SquirrelMail.
> 
> [1] http://www.php.net/release_4_3_11.php
> [2] http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=222

See progress on bug 87517:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87517

The issues are either minor (affecting submodules like exif or fbsql) or
covered by previous known bugs (the unserialize thing that has been
improved since GLSA 200412-14, or the CURL thing that PHP developers
said they wouldn't fix and for which we printed a warning during the
merge). I don't think squirrelmail would be affected by any of those.

That said, we hope the PHP Gentoo maintainers will update the version
soon so that we can issue a GLSA about it.

-- 
Koon
Gentoo Linux Security

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