Protect PHP Installation with Suhosin Security Patch in RHEL / CentOS / Fedora

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Suhosin is an open source advanced security and protection patch system for PHP installation. The main goal of suhosin is to protect servers and users against various unknown vulnerabilities and other known and unknown flaws in applications including WordPress and many other php based applications.

Install Suhosin Patch for PHP Installation in Linux

In this article we will show you two methods for installing Suhosin Patch under RHEL / CentOS / Fedora systems. Please note in some Linux distributions like Debian and Ubuntu, suhosin shipped by default.
See also : Protect Linux Servers with LMD (Linux Malware Detect)
The first part includes using source code installation and the second part instillation is by turning on third party epel repository.

Part 1: Installing Suhosin Patch using Source Code

First install dependency package php-devel and then download latest version of suhosin patch using wget command and unpack it.

# yum install php-devel
# wget http://download.suhosin.org/suhosin-0.9.33.tgz
# tar -xvf suhosin-0.9.33.tgz

Next, run the following commands to compile suhosin patch for php installation.

# cd suhosin-0.9.33
# phpize
# ./configure
# make
# make install

Create the suhosin configuration file by adding suhosin extension to it.

# echo 'extension=suhosin.so' > /etc/php.d/suhosin.ini

Restart the web server Apache, Nginx or Lighttpd.

# service httpd restart
# service nginx restart
# service lighttpd restart

Part 2: Installing Suhosin Patch using EPEL repository

Turn on EPEL repository under RHEL / CentOS systems and then run the following command to install it. (Note : Fedora user’s don’t need to add epel repository).

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