PHP 5.2.0 released

FYI…

- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1818
Last Updated: 2006-11-02 19:44:29 UTC
"The PHP team announced today the release to the 5.2.0 version*. This is a major release and besides the new features, what we are looking for are the security fixes, and the over 200 bug fixes…"

* http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_0.php
Nov 2, 2006

FYI…

Advisory: PHP HTML Entity Encoder Heap Overflow Vulnerability
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_132006.138.html
Last Modified: 2006/11/03
"Application: PHP 5 <= 5.1.6, PHP 4 <= 4.4.4
Severity: Bufferoverflows in htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() may result in arbitrary remote code execution.
Risk: Critical
Vendor Status: Vendor released PHP 5.2.0 fixes this issue…"

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