PHP Release 5.5.21


    PHP 5.5.21 Release Announcement

    The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.21. This release fixes several bugs as well as CVE-2015-0231, CVE-2014-9427 and CVE-2015-0232. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

    For source downloads of PHP 5.5.21 please visit our downloads page, Windows binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog.

    Source Code
    PHP 5.5.21 (tar.bz2)
    SHA256: 62e9429975c4ca5d7067a5052d5388fbf2ac8c51eeee581d59b04cc5a8da83fe
    PHP 5.5.21 (tar.gz)
    SHA256: 45adba5b4d2519f6174b85fd5b07a77389f397603d84084bdd26c44b3d7dc8af
    PHP 5.5.21 (tar.xz)
    SHA256: f2583540b2698d7d0ee9cfc071c2b56ccc64a52a2b53101511ba8df5b126d6d2
    Change Logs
    core
    • Upgraded crypt_blowfish to version 1.3.
    • Fixed bug #60704 bug with some files path).
    • Fixed bug #65419 (Inside trait, self::class != __CLASS__).
    • Fixed bug #65576 (Constructor from trait conflicts with inherited constructor).
    • Fixed bug #55541 (errors spawn MessageBox, which blocks test automation).
    • Fixed bug #68297 (Application Popup provides too few information).
    • Fixed bug #65769 (localeconv() broken in TS builds).
    • Fixed bug #65230 (setting locale randomly broken).
    • Fixed bug #66764 (configure doesn't define EXPANDED_DATADIR / PHP_DATADIR correctly).
    • Fixed bug #68583 (Crash in timeout thread).
    • Fixed bug #68676 (Explicit Double Free). (CVE-2014-9425)
    • Fixed bug #68710 (Use After Free Vulnerability in PHP's unserialize()). (CVE-2015-0231)
    cgi
    • Fixed bug #68618 (out of bounds read crashes php-cgi). (CVE-2014-9427)
    cli server
    • Fixed bug #68745 (Invalid HTTP requests make web server segfault).
    curl
    • Fixed bug #67643 (curl_multi_getcontent returns '' when CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER isn't set).
    exif
    • Fixed bug #68799 (Free called on uninitialized pointer). (CVE-2015-0232)
    fileinfo
    • Fixed bug #68671 (incorrect expression in libmagic).
    • Removed readelf.c and related code from libmagic sources
    • Fixed bug #68735 (fileinfo out-of-bounds memory access). (CVE-2014-9652)
    fpm
    • Fixed bug #68751 (listen.allowed_clients is broken).
    gd
    • Fixed bug #68601 (buffer read overflow in gd_gif_in.c). (CVE-2014-9709)
    mbstring
    • Fixed bug #68504 (--with-libmbfl configure option not present on Windows).
    mcrypt
    • Fixed possible read after end of buffer and use after free.
    opcache
    • Fixed bug #67111 (Memory leak when using "continue 2" inside two foreach loops).
    openssl
    • Fixed bug #55618 (use case-insensitive cert name matching).
    pcntl
    • Fixed bug #60509 (pcntl_signal doesn't decrease ref-count of old handler when setting SIG_DFL).
    pcre
    • Fixed bug #66679 (Alignment Bug in PCRE 8.34 upstream).
    pgsql
    • Fixed bug #68697 (lo_export return -1 on failure).
    pdo
    • Fixed bug #68371 (PDO#getAttribute() cannot be called with platform-specific attribute names).
    pdo_mysql
    • Fixed bug #68424 (Add new PDO mysql connection attr to control multi statements option).
    spl
    • Fixed bug #66405 (RecursiveDirectoryIterator::CURRENT_AS_PATHNAME breaks the RecursiveIterator).
    • Fixed bug #65213 (cannot cast SplFileInfo to boolean)
    • Fixed bug #68479 (Added escape parameter to SplFileObject::fputcsv).
    sqlite
    • Fixed bug #68120 (Update bundled libsqlite to 3.8.7.2).
    streams
    • Fixed bug #68532 (convert.base64-encode omits padding bytes).
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