The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-3a58db70ca advisory.

    **PHP version 8.4.21** (07 May 2026)

    **Core:**

    * Fixed bug [GH-19983](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/19983) (GC assertion failure with fibers,     generators and destructors). (iliaal)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21478](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21478) (Forward property operations to real     instance for initialized lazy proxies). (iliaal)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21605](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21605) (Missing addref for     Countable::count()). (ilutov)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21699](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21699) (Assertion failure in     shutdown_executor when resolving self::/parent::/static:: callables if the error handler throws).
    (macoaure)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21603](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21603) (Missing addref for __unset). (ilutov)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21760](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21760) (Trait with class constant name     conflict against enum case causes SEGV). (Pratik Bhujel)

    **CLI:**

    * Fixed bug [GH-21754](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21754) (`--rf` command line option with a     method triggers ext/reflection deprecation warnings). (DanielEScherzer)

    **Curl:**

    * Add support for brotli and zstd on Windows. (Shivam Mathur)

    **DOM:**

    * Fixed [GHSA-4jhr-8w89-j733](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-4jhr-8w89-j733) and     [GH-21566](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21566) (Dom\XMLDocument::C14N() emits duplicate xmlns     declarations after setAttributeNS()). (**CVE-2026-7263**) (David Carlier)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21688](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21688) (segmentation fault on empty     HTMLDocument). (David Carlier)
    * Upgrade to lexbor v2.7.0. (**CVE-2026-29078**, **CVE-2026-29079**) (ndossche, ilutov)

    **FPM:**

    * Fixed [GHSA-7qg2-v9fj-4mwv](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-7qg2-v9fj-4mwv) (XSS     within status endpoint). (**CVE-2026-6735**) (Jakub Zelenka)

    **Iconv:**

    * Fixed bug [GH-17399](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/17399) (iconv memory leak on bailout).
    (iliaal)

    **MBString:**

    * Fixed [GHSA-wm6j-2649-pv75](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-wm6j-2649-pv75)     (Null pointer dereference in php_mb_check_encoding() via mb_ereg_search_init()). (**CVE-2026-7259**)     (vi3tL0u1s)
    * Fixed [GHSA-74r9-qxhc-fx53](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-74r9-qxhc-fx53)     (Out-of-bounds access in mbfl_name2encoding_ex()). (**CVE-2026-6104**) (ilutov)

    **Opcache:**

    * Fixed bug [GH-21158](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21158) (JIT: Assertion jit->ra[var].flags &     (1<<0) failed in zend_jit_use_reg). (Arnaud)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21593](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21593) (Borked function JIT JMPNZ smart     branch). (ilutov)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21460](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21460) (COND optimization regression).
    (Dmitry, Arnaud)
    * Fixed faulty returns out of zend_try block in zend_jit_trace(). (ilutov)

    **OpenSSL:**

    * Fix a bunch of memory leaks and crashes on edge cases. (ndossche)

    **PDO_Firebird:**

    * Fixed [GHSA-w476-322c-wpvm](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-w476-322c-wpvm) (SQL     injection via NUL bytes in quoted strings). (**CVE-2025-14179**) (SakiTakamachi)

    **Phar:**

    * Restore is_link handler in phar_intercept_functions_shutdown. (iliaal)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21797](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21797) (phar: NULL dereference in     Phar::webPhar() when SCRIPT_NAME is absent from SAPI environment). (iliaal)
    * Fix memory leak in Phar::offsetGet(). (iliaal)
    * Fix memory leak in phar_add_file(). (iliaal)
    * Fixed bug [GH-21799](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21799) (phar: propagate phar_stream_flush     return value from phar_stream_close). (iliaal)
    * Fix memory leak in phar_verify_signature() when md_ctx is invalid. (JarneClauw)

    **Random:**

    * Fixed bug [GH-21731](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21731)     (Random\Engine\Xoshiro256StarStar::__unserialize() accepts all-zero state). (iliaal)

    **Session:**

    * Fixed memory leak when session GC callback return a refcounted value. (jorgsowa)

    **SOAP:**

    * Fixed [GHSA-85c2-q967-79q5](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-85c2-q967-79q5)     (Stale SOAP_GLOBAL(ref_map) pointer with Apache Map). (**CVE-2026-6722**) (ilutov)
    * Fixed [GHSA-m33r-qmcv-p97q](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-m33r-qmcv-p97q)     (Use-after-free after header parsing failure with SOAP_PERSISTENCE_SESSION). (**CVE-2026-7261**) (ilutov)
    * Fixed [GHSA-hmxp-6pc4-f3vv](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-hmxp-6pc4-f3vv)     (Broken Apache map value NULL check). (**CVE-2026-7262**) (ilutov)

    **SPL:**

    * Fixed bug [GH-21499](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21499) (RecursiveArrayIterator getChildren     UAF after parent free). (Girgias)
    * Fix concurrent iteration and deletion issues in SplObjectStorage. (ndossche)

    **Standard:**

    * Fixed [GHSA-96wq-48vp-hh57](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-96wq-48vp-hh57)     (Signed integer overflow of char array offset). (**CVE-2026-7568**) (TimWolla)
    * Fixed [GHSA-m8rr-4c36-8gq4](https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-m8rr-4c36-8gq4)     (Consistently pass unsigned char to ctype.h functions). (**CVE-2026-7258**) (ilutov)

    **Streams:**

    * Fixed bug [GH-21468](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21468) (Segfault in file_get_contents w/ a     https URL and a proxy set). (ndossche)

    **XSL:**

    * Fixed bug [GH-21600](https://github.com/php/php-src/issues/21600) (Segfault on module shutdown). (David     Carlier)

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