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Rob Richards' Blog: PHP, Oracle and SELinux

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:41:00 -0600

Rob Richards mentioned in a previous book review about some of the issues he was having getting the Oracle extension enabled on his Fedora 8 system. Well, he's come back after doing some more testing/compiling and has found some resolution to his issues.

I really didn't need to get it running, but the sheer fact that I tried it and it wouldn't work, pissed me off enough to spend some time getting it resolved. Hopefully this helps anyone else having the same problem. I am currently using instant client 11.1, but I did try the 10.2 version with the same results.

He steps through the process he followed - tracking down the missing libaio files, correcting an issue with SELinux loading the Oracle libraries and his realization: he just needed to allow text relocation. Included in the post are the command line calls that'd need to be made to make it all happen.

Christopher Jones' Blog: PHP 5.2.5 RPMs with OCI8 and PDO_OCI are available

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 07:52:00 -0600

Christopher Jones has a (very) quick announcement about the latest builds of the PHP RPMs for Enterprise linux installations:

PHP 5.2.5 RPMs for x86 Enterprise Linux (i.e. RHEL) 4.6 and 5.1 are on http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/. These are supplied "as is".

The RPMs are part of a project to provide support for Oracle Enterprise Linux servers (as well as Red Hat installs) and provide a PHP command line, CGI interface and an Apache module quickly and easily. Check out the project page to find out more and to grab this latest build.

Community News: Red Hat Security Package Update

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:02:00 -0500

The Red Hat linux group has issued an update for their PHP packages today:

Red Hat has issued an update for php. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

You can get more information about this moderate level advisory from the Red Hat advisory including the affected products and the list of packages that should be updated to bring your installation up to date.

Secunia.com: Red Hat Update for PHP

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:54:00 -0500

On the Secunia site today, there's a new advisory posted for users of Red Hat linux - an update to the system's PHP packages.

Red Hat has issued an update for php. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The original advisory has more details on what the patch fixes and the checksum information for the update packages for all OSes.

Secunia.com: Red Hat Update for PHP

Wed, 09 May 2007 11:51:00 -0500

Secunia.com has posted this new advisory that Red Hat users need to pay attention to. Due to some of the security issues and updates made to PHP recently, several of the linux distributions have released updated packages for PHP with these new fixes in place. Red Hat is now offering theirs for download:

Red Hat has issued an update for php. This fixes some vulnerabilities, where some have unknown impacts and others can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and potentially by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

You can grab the latest packages from the Red Hat Network Site and view the text of the original advisory here