PHP Release 5.6.8


    PHP 5.6.8 Release Announcement

    The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.6.8. Several bugs have been fixed some of them beeing security related, like CVE-2015-1351 and CVE-2015-1352. All PHP 5.6 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version.

    For source downloads of PHP 5.6.8 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 5.6.8 (tar.bz2)
    SHA256: 0af0045745d61eeb74a3ea744529a2481b27cb689da720e6c0250675043724e4
    PHP 5.6.8 (tar.gz)
    SHA256: c5b1c75c5671c239473eb611129f33ac432a55a1c341990b70009a2aa3b8dbc3
    PHP 5.6.8 (tar.xz)
    SHA256: 4c417387b88e100ca306adeda8051eb9fad93dae8da983f962dabf91a14b2b7b
    Change Logs
    core
    • Fixed bug #66609 (php crashes with __get() and ++ operator in some cases).
    • 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 #69210 (serialize function return corrupted data when sleep has non-string values).
    • 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).
    apache2handler
    • Fixed bug #69218 (potential remote code execution with apache 2.4 apache2handler).
    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
    • 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).
    opcache
    • Fixed bug #69297 (function_exists strange behavior with OPCache on disabled function).
    • Fixed bug #69281 (opcache_is_script_cached no longer works).
    • Fixed bug #68677 (Use After Free). (CVE-2015-1351)
    openssl
    • Fixed bugs #68853, #65137 (Buffered crypto stream data breaks IO polling in stream_select() contexts)
    • Fixed bug #69197 (openssl_pkcs7_sign handles default value incorrectly)
    • Fixed bug #69215 (Crypto servers should send client CA list)
    • 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 libsqlite to 3.8.8.3).
    • Fixed bug #66550 (SQLite prepared statement use-after-free).
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