LinuxSecurity.com: Maksymilian Arciemowicz discovered that PHP did not properly handle theini_restore function. An attacker could exploit this issue to obtainrandom memory contents or to cause the PHP server to crash, resulting in adenial of service. (CVE-2009-2626)It was discovered that the htmlspecialchars function did not properlyhandle certain character sequences, which could result in browsers becomingvulnerable to cross-site scripting attacks when processing the output. Withcross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewingserver output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker couldexploit this to modify the contents, or steal confidential data (such aspasswords), within the same domain. (CVE-2009-4142)Stefan Esser discovered that PHP did not properly handle session data. Anattacker could exploit this issue to bypass safe_mode or open_basedirrestrictions. (CVE-2009-4143)
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