The latest available version from Debian is 5.6.14+dfsg-0+deb8u1, with 5.6.15 already in security team queue and 5.6.16 in preparation. If you are running 5.6.7+dfsg-1 then you are doing something very wrong like having security updates disabled.
Cheers, Ondrej On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 16:58, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > Package: php5 > Version: 5.6.7+dfsg-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Dear PHP Maintainers, > > PHP 5.6.15 fixed various segfaults, by which we were affected, and which > caused > the entire php5-fpm monitor process to crash the monitored processes in > the > garbage collector when using Opcache. This means that fpm would not crash > reliably, in which case we could have just restarted it, but the wonky > fpm > master process would spawn subprocesses which would then reliably > segfault, > causing us random downtime which required human intervention. > > Since most of the changes in point-releases of PHP 5.6 are either > security > fixes or fixes for rather serious bugs like the segfault above, or other > cases > of PHP segfaulting: Would you please update PHP to 5.6.16 as part of the > next > jessie point release, or at least backport the fixes to the current > version in > the repository? > > See http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.15 for the complete list of > changes. > > The particular bug we are affected by is > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70601 > but http://bugs.php.net/70631 and http://bugs.php.net/70632 also look > rather grave. > > I believe the bug affects all users of Opcache, not just fpm. > > Our current fix is running our own PHP package which has the fixes > compiled in > and has been stable so far. > > Best, > Moritz > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.2 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-php-maint mailing list > pkg-php-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server