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Net_Traceroute and Net_Ping security advisory
PEAR Security Advisory (PSA 200911-14-01)
Severity: Serious
Title: PEAR Net_Ping and Net_Traceroute Remote Arbitrary Command Injection
Date: November 14, 2009
ID: 200911-14-01
Synopsis
Multiple remote arbitrary command
Ubuntu Karmic Ships with PEAR-Affecting Issues
Be aware that the initial release of Ubuntu Karmic contains a bug that affects PHP and PEAR, whose fix came a tad too late to make the initial release. The bug is fixed, and will be included in upcoming updates from Ubuntu.
From PEAR’s perspective, the key issue relates to the zlib library. This is evident [...]
Outage over
The core router issues at the hosting provider have been resolved. Sorry for the inconvenience. pear.php.net and the PEAR channel are now back in business.
PEAR Website Outage
The PEAR website is currently unavailable due to network issues where the server is located. The hosting provider is working to restore service.
In the meantime, the best alternative for PEAR installer usage is to point your “preferred_mirror” to one of the mirror PEAR channel servers. Use one of the commands below to choose [...]
Fixing “unsupported protocol”
Some PEAR installations on PHP 5.2.9 and 5.2.10 seem to be corrupted. When trying to install something, you will get the error:
pear.php.net is using a unsupported protocal – This should never happen. install failed
This problem comes from
The new Group has been elected!
I am more than glad to announce the arrival, the announcement of the new PEAR Group for 2009 and 2010.
With a few fresh faces in the Group, this year looks very promising with the mix of both new blood and experienced PEAR Group
The elections are still going!
As every year, the elections for the PEAR Group and PEAR President are happening. This year due to a few factors and messages lost in translation, we decided to extend the elections period by 10 days so more people would have time to vote!
So remember to cast your vote at http://pear.php.net/election/ and you have until [...]
Setting Up PEAR2 and PEAR Checkouts With SVN 1.5+
Now that pear2 is in svn.php.net, it is possible to do commits with
multiple packages using a feature of subversion called “sparse checkouts.”
Rasmus wrote about this for setting up php checkouts
PHP 5.3 Windows and PEAR (go-pear.phar)
Some users have reported that the windows builds of PHP 5.3 are not able to open the shipped go-pear.phar file.
As a workaround, users can run the distributed phar with php -d phar.require_hash=0 go-pear.phar or download and use the http://pear.php.net/go-pear non-pharred version.
pear.php.net moving on
Thanks to the efforts of Daniel O’Connor, the PEAR website is getting nicer and better. Bug RSS feeds support Baetle now, the PEAR proposal system - PEPr - works again and many small improvements and fixes found their way on the site.