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Re: CERT Advisory CA-2002-05 Multiple Vulnerabilities in PHP fileupload



On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 08:37:45AM -0000, Jeff wrote:
> I received this CERT Advisory about 6 hours ago, regarding PHP. 
> The php website confirms the details: www.php.net
> I think this is going to be a problem for us, due to the way
> the Debian packaging works - 
> I guess that the immediate solution in this case is for us to
> try to get the unstable Apache 1.3.23 package + an updated
> PHP4 4.2.1 package + MySQL, SSL etc to work. mmmm - aint
> going to be quick to test this and roll it out into production, 
> and in the mean time, we have production servers running
> a PHP4 that has a now widely known security issue. Oh - and 
> yes, we could go out of business and not accept data, but
> methinks my tenure would be somewhat shortened if I propose
> that at our emergency security meeting in an hours time!
> Help?

    Grab the php4.05 source package, patch and rebuild the package, then 
    distribute.

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