PHP Release 5.5.24


    PHP 5.5.24 Release Announcement

    The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.24. Several bugs have been fixed some of them beeing security related, like CVE-2015-1351 and CVE-2015-1352. All PHP 5.5 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

    For source downloads of PHP 5.5.24 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 5.5.24 (tar.bz2)
    SHA256: 801b5cf2e0c01b07314d4ac3c8a7c28d524bdd8263ebdd0e33a99008251316a2
    PHP 5.5.24 (tar.gz)
    SHA256: 43e6b83fe8151f8d2062ca4da915312fc92e47789801049231c705a8b29b05bc
    PHP 5.5.24 (tar.xz)
    SHA256: ffb6235a25043cab71e6445cfc9e8bf16ae80a2835f0373cdd948fcc31eafe57
    Change Logs
    apache2handler
    • Fixed bug #69218 (potential remote code execution with apache 2.4 apache2handler).
    core
    • Fixed bug #66609 (php crashes with __get() and ++ operator in some cases).
    • Fixed bug #67626 (User exceptions not properly handled in streams).
    • Fixed bug #68021 (get_browser() browser_name_regex returns non-utf-8 characters).
    • Fixed bug #68917 (parse_url fails on some partial urls).
    • Fixed bug #69134 (Per Directory Values overrides PHP_INI_SYSTEM configuration options).
    • Additional fix for bug #69152 (Type confusion vulnerability in exception::getTraceAsString).
    • Fixed bug #69212 (Leaking VIA_HANDLER func when exception thrown in __call/... arg passing).
    • Fixed bug #69221 (Segmentation fault when using a generator in combination with an Iterator).
    • Fixed bug #69337 (php_stream_url_wrap_http_ex() type-confusion vulnerability).
    • Fixed bug #69353 (Missing null byte checks for paths in various PHP extensions).
    curl
    • Implemented FR#69278 (HTTP2 support).
    • Fixed bug #68739 (Missing break / control flow).
    • Fixed bug #69316 (Use-after-free in php_curl related to CURLOPT_FILE/_INFILE/_WRITEHEADER).
    date
    • Export date_get_immutable_ce so that it can be used by extensions.
    • Fixed bug #69336 (Issues with "last day of <monthname>").
    enchant
    • Fixed bug #65406 (Enchant broker plugins are in the wrong place in windows builds).
    ereg
    • Fixed bug #68740 (NULL Pointer Dereference).
    fileinfo
    • Fixed bug #68819 (Fileinfo on specific file causes spurious OOM and/or segfault).
    filter
    • Fixed bug #69202 (FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_BACKTICK ignored unless other flags are used).
    • Fixed bug #69203 (FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_HIGH doesn't strip ASCII 127).
    mbstring
    • Fixed bug #68846 (False detection of CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E).
    odbc
    • Fixed bug #69354 (Incorrect use of SQLColAttributes with ODBC 3.0).
    opcache
    • Fixed bug #69281 (opcache_is_script_cached no longer works).
    • Fixed bug #68677 (Use After Free). (CVE-2015-1351)
    openssl
    • Fixed bug #67403 .
    • Add a check for RAND_egd to allow compiling against LibreSSL
    phar
    • Fixed bug #64343 (PharData::extractTo fails for tarball created by BSD tar).
    • Fixed bug #64931 (phar_add_file is too restrictive on filename).
    • Fixed bug #65467 (Call to undefined method cli_arg_typ_string).
    • Fixed bug #67761 (Phar::mapPhar fails for Phars inside a path containing ".tar").
    • Fixed bug #69324 (Buffer Over-read in unserialize when parsing Phar).
    • Fixed bug #69441 (Buffer Overflow when parsing tar/zip/phar in phar_set_inode).
    postgres
    • Fixed bug #68741 (Null pointer dereference). (CVE-2015-1352)
    soap
    • Fixed bug #69152 (Type Confusion Infoleak Vulnerability in unserialize() with SoapFault).
    • Fixed bug #69293 (NEW segfault when using SoapClient::__setSoapHeader (bisected, regression)).
    spl
    • Fixed bug #69227 (Use after free in zval_scan caused by spl_object_storage_get_gc).
    sqlite3
    • Fixed bug #68760 (SQLITE segfaults if custom collator throws an exception).
    • Fixed bug #69287 (Upgrade bundled sqlite to 3.8.8.3).
    • Fixed bug #66550 (SQLite prepared statement use-after-free).
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