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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the PHP language:
CVE-2015-4598
thoger at redhat dot com discovered that paths containing a NUL
character were improperly handled, thus allowing an attacker to
manipulate unexpected files on the server.
CVE-2015-4643
Max Spelsberg discovered an integer overflow flaw leading to a
heap-based buffer overflow in PHP's FTP extension, when parsing
listings in FTP server responses. This could lead to a a crash or
execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2015-4644
A denial of service through a crash could be caused by a segfault
in the php_pgsql_meta_data function.
CVE-2015-5589
kwrnel at hotmail dot com discovered that PHP could crash when
processing an invalid phar file, thus leading to a denial of
service.
CVE-2015-5590
jared at enhancesoft dot com discovered a buffer overflow in the
phar_fix_filepath function, that could causes a crash or execution
of arbitrary code.
Additionally, several other vulnerabilites were fixed:
sean dot heelan at gmail dot com discovered a problem in the
unserialization of some items, that could lead to arbitrary code
execution.
stewie at mail dot ru discovered that the phar extension improperly
handled zip archives with relative paths, which would allow an
attacker to overwrite files outside of the destination directory.
taoguangchen at icloud dot com discovered several use-after-free
vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
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