Vulnerability Bulletins |
DSA-2961 php5 - security update |
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| Affected software | Debian |
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It was discovered that PHP, a general-purpose scripting languagecommonly used for web application development, is vulnerable to aheap-based buffer overflow in the DNS TXT record parsing. A maliciousserver or man-in-the-middle attacker could possibly use this flaw toexecute arbitrary code as the PHP interpreter if a PHP application usesdns_get_record() to perform a DNS query. More info: https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2961 |
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