Fedora Core 5 : php-5.1.6-1.2 (2006-1168)

high Nessus Plugin ID 24042

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update fixes a security vulnerability in PHP.

The Hardened-PHP Project discovered an overflow in the PHP htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() routines. If a PHP script used the vulnerable functions to parse UTF-8 data, a remote attacker sending a carefully crafted request could trigger the overflow and potentially execute arbitrary code as the 'apache' user.
(CVE-2006-5465)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?712fb6f6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 24042

File Name: fedora_2006-1168.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-ncurses, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-xmlrpc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2006

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2006-1168