Debian DLA-1509-1 : php5 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 117610

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in php5, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. The Apache2 component allows XSS via the body of a 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' request because of a defect in request handling.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this problem has been fixed in version 5.6.38+dfsg-0+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your php5 packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00020.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/jessie/php5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117610

File Name: debian_DLA-1509.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/20/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapache2-mod-php5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapache2-mod-php5filter, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libphp5-embed, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php-pear, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-cgi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-cli, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-curl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-enchant, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-fpm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-gd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-gmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-imap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-interbase, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-intl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-ldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-mcrypt, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-odbc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-phpdbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-pspell, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-readline, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-recode, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-snmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-sybase, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-tidy, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5-xsl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17082