Secunia has issued an advisory for Slackware PHP users - an update to the official package to prevent some of the recent security issues corrected in the latest PHP releases.

Slackware has issued an update for php. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious users to manipulate certain data, disclose potentially sensitive information, bypass certain security restrictions, cause a DoS (Denial of Service), or to compromise a vulnerable system, and by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information, conduct cross-site scripting attacks, or cause a DoS.

To upgrade your distribution, selected your version from the list provided in the advisory.