Red Hat Errata System 5.3 2012-02-02T18:00:00 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server. It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2011-4885 (released via RHSA-2012:0071, RHSA-2012:0033, and RHSA-2012:0019 for php packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 respectively) introduced an uninitialized memory use flaw. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted HTTP request to cause the PHP interpreter to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-0830) All php users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect. Critical Copyright 2012 Red Hat, Inc. CVE-2012-0830 CVE-2012-0830 php: remote code exec flaw introduced in the CVE-2011-4885 hashdos fix cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux