RFE: PHP 5.3.1 Upstream Source Update
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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IUS Community Project |
Fix Released
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Medium
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BJ Dierkes |
Bug Description
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PHP 5.3.1 Release Announcement
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.1. This is a maintenance release in the 5.3 series, which includes a large number of bug fixes.
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.1:
* Added "max_file_uploads" INI directive, which can be set to limit the number of file uploads per-request to 20 by default, to prevent possible DOS via temporary file exhaustion.
* Added missing sanity checks around exif processing.
* Fixed a safe_mode bypass in tempnam().
* Fixed a open_basedir bypass in posix_mkfifo().
* Fixed bug #50063 (safe_mode_
* Fixed bug #44683 (popen crashes when an invalid mode is passed).
Key Bug Fixes in PHP 5.3.1 include:
* Fixed crash in com_print_typeinfo when an invalid typelib is given.
* Fixed crash in SQLiteDatabase:
* Fixed crash when instantiating PDORow and PDOStatement through Reflection.
* Fixed bug #49910 (no support for ././@LongLink for long filenames in phar tar support).
* Fixed bug #49908 (throwing exception in __autoload crashes when interface is not defined).
* Around 100 other bug fixes
For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here [1], detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.
For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.1, see the ChangeLog [2].
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- [2] http://
Please note, this bug is not marked as a security issue based on the fact that php53.ius is already patched for the security related bugs listed.