CVE-2014-8142

A flaws was discovered in the way PHP performed object unserialization. Specially crafted input processed by the unserialize() function could cause a PHP application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

This issue did not affect the versions of php as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 or the versions of php53 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The PHP manual documents that using unserialize() on untrusted user input is unsafe and not recommended.

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