PHP Security Update

[Anon]

I issue this command:

"patch rfc1867.c rfc1867.c.diff-4.0.6"

and I get this output:

Hmm... Looks like a unified diff to me...

The text leading up to this was:

|--- rfc1867.c.1.62.2.1 Tue Jun 19 18:54:44 2001

|+++ rfc1867.c Tue Feb 26 15:52:55 2002

Patching file rfc1867.c using Plan A...
patch: **** malformed patch at line 9: ;

I'm (of course) running php 4.0.6. I'm no stranger to compiling php and anything else, but I've never needed to apply a patch before. I don't want to upgrade to 4.1.2 because 4.0.6 is very stable and I want to wait a while for 4.1.x to mature before upgrading (I have a mission critical environment).

Anyone apply this patch? I assume a million people have at least tried to apply it?

Thanks in advance.

Bob

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which version of 'patch' are you using? under which os? I have no problems at all patching on redhat 7.2:

cd php-4.0.6/main
patch rfc1867.c < rfc1867.c.diff-4.0.6.gz

...like a charm.

[Anon]

It appears that it was a problem with the distribution on the php.net site. The version that they had up there yesterday was formatted at 80 colums wide. The wrapping of the text at 80 colums caused the patch to fail. Using the current patch works. They really should have noted that they had a problem and it was corrected.

Anyway, it works fine now, thanks for the assistance.

Bob