03.04.2003

Ten days ago Sun Cobalt released Patch 15959 for various Sun Cobalt RaQs. This patch contains both a PHP security fix (still PHP-4.0.6) and an updated Postgres database which has several buffer overruns fixed.
Installing this patch on a RaQ with a third party PHP installation in place is very likely to toast the Apache webserver due to gd-lib dependencies. We reported this when the patch came out.

We looked further into the matter and can report that our PHP installs on the RaQ550 are not affected. So it is safe to install 15959 on RaQ550's which have our PHP-4.2.2 or - up to and including - PHP-4.3.1 installed.

Due to popular request we just released a trimmed down and unofficial RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-15959.pkg which does not contain the fixed PHP-4.0.6.

Therefore it should be safe to install our unofficial RaQ4-All-Security-2.0.1-15959.pkg on a RaQ4 which contains a modified PHP installation - either from us or other sources. The revised PKG just contains the Postgres part of the update.

The package is available on our download page.

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