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Re: RFS: php-geoip (updated package)



Hi,

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
I had a look in your package and this makes me a headache:

php-geoip (1.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

 * New upstream release.  Fix security issue:
   + formatting bug in phpinfo()

From the upstream changelog:
* Small bug in phpinfo() when printing version number could crash PHP.

So on a local/remote attacker could crash PHP (also the webserver?) by
just using phpinfo()?

I CCed the security team and this fix should also go in to Lenny and
your urgency should be bumped to something higher than low.

This is more a normal bug than a security issue.

But looking at the diff between 1.0.3 and 1.0.5 and at http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/pecl/geoip/geoip.c?r1=1.21&r2=1.22 , it seems the crash bug was only introduced in 1.0.4, which was never released. So there is nothing to fix in lenny.

But thanks for the notice, anyway.

Cheers,
Stefan

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