Re: utf-8 security issue in php

[Pierre Joye <pierre.php () gmail com>]

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

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