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VPR Score: 6.7
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
Description
The Phar extension for PHP does not properly handle crafted tar files, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. PHP applications processing tar files could crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.
In addition, this update addresses a regression which caused a crash when accessing a global object that is returned as $this from __get.
Solution
Upgrade the php5 packages.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze13.