[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: php-5.3.8-3.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-13472
2011-09-29 04:45:10
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Name        : php
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 5.3.8
Release     : 3.fc16
URL         : http://www.php.net/
Summary     : PHP scripting language for creating dynamic web sites
Description :
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it
easy for developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP also
offers built-in database integration for several commercial and
non-commercial database management systems, so writing a
database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The most common
use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts.

The php package contains the module which adds support for the PHP
language to Apache HTTP Server.

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Update Information:

* Revert is_a() behavior to php <= 5.3.6 and add a new new option (allow_string) for the new behavior (accept string and raise autoload if needed)

* Provides MySQL Native Driver in new php-mysqlnd package.

Upstream documentation:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqlnd.overview.php

This is a drop-in replacement of MySQL Client Library used by php-mysql package.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #741020 - CVE-2011-3379 php: changes to is_a() in 5.3.7 may allow arbitrary code execution with certain code
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741020
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update php' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
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