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To: PHP Developers Mailing List <internals@lists.php.net>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:43:14 -0400
Subject: PHP 5.2.4 Released
From: ilia@prohost.org (Ilia Alshanetsky)

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate  
availability of PHP 5.2.4. This release focuses on improving the  
stability of the PHP 5.2.X branch with over 120 various bug fixes in  
addition to resolving several low priority security bugs. All users  
of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.4
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* Fixed a floating point exception inside wordwrap() (Reported by  
Mattias Bengtsson)
* Fixed several integer overflows inside the GD extension (Reported  
by Mattias Bengtsson)
* Fixed size calculation in chunk_split() (Reported by Gerhard Wagner)
* Fixed integer overflow in str[c]spn(). (Reported by Stanislav  
Malyshev)
* Fixed money_format() not to accept multiple %i or %n tokens.  
(Reported by Stanislav Malyshev)
* Fixed zend_alter_ini_entry() memory_limit interruption  
vulnerability. (Reported by Stefan Esser)
* Fixed INFILE LOCAL option handling with MySQL extensions not to be  
allowed when open_basedir or safe_mode is active. (Reported by  
Stanislav Malyshev)
* Fixed session.save_path and error_log values to be checked against  
open_basedir and safe_mode (CVE-2007-3378) (Reported by Maksymilian  
Arciemowicz)
* Fixed a possible invalid read in glob() win32 implementation  
(CVE-2007-3806) (Reported by shinnai)
* Fixed a possible buffer overflow in php_openssl_make_REQ (Reported  
by zatanzlatan at hotbrev dot com)
* Fixed an open_basedir bypass inside glob() function (Reported by dr  
at peytz dot dk)
* Fixed a possible open_basedir bypass inside session extension when  
the session file is a symlink (Reported by c dot i dot morris at  
durham dot ac dot uk)
* Improved fix for MOPB-03-2007.
* Corrected fix for CVE-2007-2872.

Key enhancements in PHP 5.2.4 include
------------------------------------------------------------

* Upgraded PCRE to version 7.2
* Added persistent connection status checker to pdo_pgsql.
* Fixed oci8 and PDO_OCI extensions to allow configuring with Oracle  
11g client libraries.
* Fixed bug #41831 (pdo_sqlite prepared statements convert resources  
to strings).
* Fixed bug #41770 (SSL: fatal protocol error due to buffer issues)
* Fixed bug #41713 (Persistent memory consumption on win32 since 5.2)


For users upgrading from PHP 5.0 and PHP 5.1, an upgrade guide is
available here (http://www.php.net/migration52), detailing the
changes between those releases and PHP 5.2.4.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.2.4, see the ChangeLog (http://
www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.4).

Ilia Alshanetsky
5.2 Release Master