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Ubuntu 5.04 : php4 regression (USN-320-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 27898

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

USN-320-2 fixed several vulnerabilities in PHP. James Manning discovered that the Ubuntu 5.04 update introduced a regression, the function tempnam() caused a crash of the PHP interpreter in some circumstances. The updated packages fix this.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 27898

File Name: ubuntu_USN-320-2.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-cli, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-cgi, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-php4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 7/26/2006

Reference Information

USN: 320-2