This update for php5 fixes the following security issues :

  - CVE-2015-8838: mysqlnd was vulnerable to BACKRONYM     (bnc#973792).

  - CVE-2015-8835: SoapClient s_call method suffered from a     type confusion issue that could have lead to crashes     [bsc#973351]

  - CVE-2016-2554: A NULL pointer dereference in     phar_get_fp_offset could lead to crashes. [bsc#968284]     Note: we do not ship the phar extension currently, so we     are not affected.

  - CVE-2016-3141: A use-after-free / double-free in the     WDDX deserialization could lead to crashes or potential     code execution. [bsc#969821]

  - CVE-2016-3142: An Out-of-bounds read in     phar_parse_zipfile() could lead to crashes. [bsc#971912]     Note: we do not ship the phar extension currently, so we     are not affected.

  - CVE-2014-9767: A directory traversal when extracting zip     files was fixed that could lead to overwritten files.
    [bsc#971612]

  - CVE-2016-3185: A type confusion vulnerability in     make_http_soap_request() could lead to crashes or     potentially code execution. [bsc#971611]

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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