Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-172

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-172 – The gdImageCreateFromXpm function in gdxpm.c in libgd, as used in PHP 5.4.26 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted color table in an XPM file. file before 5.19 does not properly restrict the amount of data read during a regex search, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file that triggers backtracking during processing of an awk rule. Various other issues have also been addressed. The updated php packages have been upgraded to the 5.5.16 version resolve these security flaws. Additionally, php-apc has been rebuilt against the updated php packages and the php-timezonedb packages has been upgraded to the 2014.6 version.

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