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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
- 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