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Category: Mandriva Local Security Checks Risk factor: High Added: 11 Mar 2010
Synopsis:

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory MDVSA-2010:058 (php).

Description:

Multiple vulnerabilities has been found and corrected in php:
* Improved LCG entropy. (Rasmus, Samy Kamkar)
* Fixed safe_mode validation inside tempnam() when the directory path does not end with a /). (Martin Jansen)
* Fixed a possible open_basedir/safe_mode bypass in the session extension identified by Grzegorz Stachowiak. (Ilia) Packages for 2008.0 are provided for Corporate Desktop 2008.0
customers.
The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

See also:

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:058

Solution:

Apply the newest security patches from Mandriva.

Risk factor:

High