Re: utf-8 security issue in php

[Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer () suse de>]

JFYI, our php maintainer found that 5.2 seems to use same xml.c
so a patch is needed too.

Sebastian

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:08:58PM +0100, Pierre Joye wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Vincent Danen <vdanen () redhat com> wrote:
> > * [2010-11-02 16:35:25 +0100] Pierre Joye wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > As best as I can tell, this only needs one ID. Please use CVE-2010-3870.
> > >
> > > Thanks, I updated the bug report and the NEWS file.
> > >
> > > Please note that only 5.3 and later contains this fix. 5.3.4 will have the
> > > fix.
> >
> > Are you saying that 5.3 and later _need_ this fix?  I.e. that this
> > doesn't affect earlier versions?  Can you clarify?  Thanks.
>
> This comment was not very clear, sorry.
>
> I'm saying that 5.3 and later have been changed to fix this problem. I
> have no idea if 5.2 requires a fix and won't investigate either (sadly
> no time). It was more for the CVE description, to be sure that the
> mention of 5.3+ will be present.
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Pierre
>
> @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org

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