Bug#318063: php4: PHP 4.4.0 may fix security bugs

2005-07-13 Thread Florian Weimer
Package: php4 Severity: grave Tags: security Justification: user security hole Version 4.4.0 address some memory corruption bugs, apparently resulting from fairly wide-spread errors in the implementation of reference counting. These bugs probably can be exploited by malicious PHP scripts only,

Bug#318063: php4: PHP 4.4.0 may fix security bugs

2005-07-13 Thread Adam Conrad
Florian Weimer wrote: Version 4.4.0 address some memory corruption bugs, apparently resulting from fairly wide-spread errors in the implementation of reference counting. These bugs probably can be exploited by malicious PHP scripts only, and not by specially crafted input to correctly written

Bug#318063: php4: PHP 4.4.0 may fix security bugs

2005-07-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Adam Conrad: These bugs will likely be addressed for stable by a change in the security bug policy for stable. Discussions with the security team are ongoing; a detailed statement should be published soon. We need a new security policy for something that *may* fix security bugs? Neat.