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PHP

Advisory : buffer overflow in php5-suhosin

A few days ago, Stefan Esser discovered a buffer overflow in the “transparent cookie encryption stack” of the Suhosin extension. Here is the full advisory.

If you previously installed the php5-suhosin package, you should upgrade to its fixed new version (0.9.33) by running :

apt-get update
apt-get install --reinstall php5-suhosin
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MySQL

Percona toolkit 2.0.2

A few days ago, Percona has released a major version of their Percona toolkit (formerly named Maatkit), bringing a lot of improvements, especially on pt-table-checksum. Baron Schwartz wrote a post about it.

Percona toolkit 2.0.2 is now available on Dotdeb for :

  • both Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny”
  • both amd64 and i386 architectures
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Redis

Redis 2.4.6

Redis 2.4.6 has been released with these changes :

  • [BUGFIX] Fixed issue #141 part 1: Possible protocol desyncs when clients send wrong protocol is now fixed. (See issue 141 for more details)
  • [BUGFIX] Fixed issue #141 part 2: Connection of multiple slaves used to result from time to time into corrupted protocol send to slaves connected after the first one. (See issue 141 for more details)
  • [BUGFIX] Do not propagate DEBUG LOADAOF.
  • New INFO contains information such as ip/port/state for every conneced slave.
  • Show GCC version in INFO output.
The packages of Redis 2.4.6 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.
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PHP

PHP 5.3.9

On january 10th 2012, the PHP group has released PHP 5.3.9, that brings over 90 bug fixes, some of which are security related :

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9:

  • Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885)
  • Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header). (CVE-2011-4566)

Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include:

  • Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to is_a and is_subclass_of).
  • Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared)
  • Many changes to the FPM SAPI module

PHP 5.3.9 is now available on Dotdeb for :

  • both Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and Debian 5.0 “Lenny”
  • both amd64 and i386 architectures

As usual, please read the ChangeLog before upgrading and be sure to use to the latest packages before reporting any issue.

[edit] the packages have been updated to fix some Suhosin- and strtotime()-related issues. You really should upgrade at least :

  • to 5.3.9-0~dotdeb.3 if you’re running Squeeze
  • to 5.3.9-0~dotdeb.2 if you’re running Lenny