Debian Security Advisory DSA 789-1 (php4)

The remote host is missing an update to php4 announced via advisory DSA 789-1. Several security related problems have been found in PHP4, the server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2005-1751 Eric Romang discovered insecure temporary files in the shtool utility shipped with PHP that can exploited by a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. Only this vulnerability affects packages in oldstable. CVE-2005-1921 GulfTech has discovered that PEAR XML_RPC is vulnerable to a remote PHP code execution vulnerability that may allow an attacker to compromise a vulnerable server. CVE-2005-2498 Stefan Esser discovered another vulnerability in the XML-RPC libraries that allows injection of arbitrary PHP code into eval() statements. For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.1.2-7.woody5.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 4.3.10-16. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 4.4.0-2. We recommend that you upgrade your PHP packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20789-1