Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:46:59 +0100 From: Arek Czereszewski <arek@wup-katowice.pl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: php4-gd Message-ID: <4AF91A73.7080904@wup-katowice.pl> In-Reply-To: <4AF90F44.1070509@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4AF90A6E.3040907@wup-katowice.pl> <4AF90F44.1070509@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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W dniu 2009-11-10 07:59, Matthew Seaman pisze: > Arek Czereszewski wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have on some web servers php4-gd port installed >> and I am totally confused. >> Portaudit says >> >> Affected package: php4-gd-4.4.9 >> Type of problem: gd -- '_gdGetColors' remote buffer overflow >> vulnerability. >> Reference: >> <http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/4e8344a3-ca52-11de-8ee8-00215c6a37bb.html> >> >> On this site is info about: 5.2.11 and 5.3.0 >> >> On Securityfocus is info also about 4.4.9 >> but on cve.mitre.org is not. >> >> Any idea where is the true? >> Are my servers with php4-gd are secure or not? > > This is a bug in the underlying gd library rather than in PHP itself. There > are fixes to two related ports: if you've updated graphics/gd to the latest > version (gd-2.0.35_2,1), and built the latest port revision of the php5-gd > module (which is php5-gd-5.2.11_2) then those should have been secured. > > However, the PHP4 version of the gd module is still at version > php4-gd-4.4.9, and doesn't seem to have been patched -- there is no patch > for CVE-2009-3546 in the php4 sources -- so it seems you are still > vulnerable > when using PHP4. This is to be expected: the PHP project is deprecating > PHP4 > and putting all their effort in to developing PHP5 instead. Patches may > be forthcoming eventually, but who knows when? > > Basically, if you're running PHP4 on a public site then you should be > making > plans to upgrade to PHP5 ASAP. > Cheers, > > Matthew > Hi, So I need to upgrade php4 to php5. Thank you for information. Regards Arek -- Arek Czereszewski arek (at) wup-katowice (dot) pl "UNIX allows me to work smarter, not harder."
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