The default session serializer in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 does not properly handle the PS_UNDEF_MARKER marker, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify arbitrary session variables via a crafted session variable name.

PHP was updated to version 5.3.3 to fix serveral security issues.

(CVE-2010-0397, CVE-2010-1860, CVE-2010-1862, CVE-2010-1864, CVE-2010-1866, CVE-2010-1914, CVE-2010-1915, CVE-2010-1917, CVE-2010-2093, CVE-2010-2094, CVE-2010-2097, CVE-2010-2100, CVE-2010-2101, CVE-2010-2190, CVE-2010-2191, CVE-2010-2225, CVE-2010-2531, CVE-2010-2950, CVE-2010-3062, CVE-2010-3063, CVE-2010-3064, CVE-2010-3065)

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2010:0919 :

Updated php packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.

An input validation flaw was discovered in the PHP session serializer.
If a PHP script generated session variable names from untrusted user input, a remote attacker could use this flaw to inject an arbitrary variable into the PHP session. (CVE-2010-3065)

An information leak flaw was discovered in the PHP var_export() function implementation. If some fatal error occurred during the execution of this function (such as the exhaustion of memory or script execution time limit), part of the function's output was sent to the user as script output, possibly leading to the disclosure of sensitive information. (CVE-2010-2531)

A numeric truncation error and an input validation flaw were found in the way the PHP utf8_decode() function decoded partial multi-byte sequences for some multi-byte encodings, sending them to output without them being escaped. An attacker could use these flaws to perform a cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2009-5016, CVE-2010-3870)

It was discovered that the PHP lcg_value() function used insufficient entropy to seed the pseudo-random number generator. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to predict values returned by the function, which are used to generate session identifiers by default.
This update changes the function's implementation to use more entropy during seeding. (CVE-2010-1128)

It was discovered that the PHP fnmatch() function did not restrict the length of the pattern argument. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the PHP interpreter where a script used fnmatch() on untrusted matching patterns. (CVE-2010-1917)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the PHP XML-RPC extension. A malicious XML-RPC client or server could use this flaw to crash the PHP interpreter via a specially crafted XML-RPC request.
(CVE-2010-0397)

All php users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

An input validation flaw was discovered in the PHP session serializer.
If a PHP script generated session variable names from untrusted user input, a remote attacker could use this flaw to inject an arbitrary variable into the PHP session. (CVE-2010-3065)

An information leak flaw was discovered in the PHP var_export() function implementation. If some fatal error occurred during the execution of this function (such as the exhaustion of memory or script execution time limit), part of the function's output was sent to the user as script output, possibly leading to the disclosure of sensitive information. (CVE-2010-2531)

A numeric truncation error and an input validation flaw were found in the way the PHP utf8_decode() function decoded partial multi-byte sequences for some multi-byte encodings, sending them to output without them being escaped. An attacker could use these flaws to perform a cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2009-5016, CVE-2010-3870)

It was discovered that the PHP lcg_value() function used insufficient entropy to seed the pseudo-random number generator. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to predict values returned by the function, which are used to generate session identifiers by default.
This update changes the function's implementation to use more entropy during seeding. (CVE-2010-1128)

It was discovered that the PHP fnmatch() function did not restrict the length of the pattern argument. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the PHP interpreter where a script used fnmatch() on untrusted matching patterns. (CVE-2010-1917)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the PHP XML-RPC extension. A malicious XML-RPC client or server could use this flaw to crash the PHP interpreter via a specially crafted XML-RPC request.
(CVE-2010-0397)

After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201110-06 (PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A context-dependent attacker could execute arbitrary code, obtain       sensitive information from process memory, bypass intended access       restrictions, or cause a Denial of Service in various ways.
    A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service in various ways,       bypass spam detections, or bypass open_basedir restrictions.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

PHP was updated to version 5.2.14 to fix serveral security issues :

  - CVE-2010-1860

  - CVE-2010-1862

  - CVE-2010-1864

  - CVE-2010-1914

  - CVE-2010-1915

  - CVE-2010-1917

  - CVE-2010-2093

  - CVE-2010-2094

  - CVE-2010-2097

  - CVE-2010-2100

  - CVE-2010-2101

  - CVE-2010-2190

  - CVE-2010-2191

  - CVE-2010-2225

  - CVE-2010-2484

  - CVE-2010-2531

  - CVE-2010-3062

  - CVE-2010-3063

  - CVE-2010-3064

  - CVE-2010-3065

Updated php packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.

An input validation flaw was discovered in the PHP session serializer.
If a PHP script generated session variable names from untrusted user input, a remote attacker could use this flaw to inject an arbitrary variable into the PHP session. (CVE-2010-3065)

An information leak flaw was discovered in the PHP var_export() function implementation. If some fatal error occurred during the execution of this function (such as the exhaustion of memory or script execution time limit), part of the function's output was sent to the user as script output, possibly leading to the disclosure of sensitive information. (CVE-2010-2531)

A numeric truncation error and an input validation flaw were found in the way the PHP utf8_decode() function decoded partial multi-byte sequences for some multi-byte encodings, sending them to output without them being escaped. An attacker could use these flaws to perform a cross-site scripting attack. (CVE-2009-5016, CVE-2010-3870)

It was discovered that the PHP lcg_value() function used insufficient entropy to seed the pseudo-random number generator. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to predict values returned by the function, which are used to generate session identifiers by default.
This update changes the function's implementation to use more entropy during seeding. (CVE-2010-1128)

It was discovered that the PHP fnmatch() function did not restrict the length of the pattern argument. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the PHP interpreter where a script used fnmatch() on untrusted matching patterns. (CVE-2010-1917)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in the PHP XML-RPC extension. A malicious XML-RPC client or server could use this flaw to crash the PHP interpreter via a specially crafted XML-RPC request.
(CVE-2010-0397)

All php users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

PHP was updated to version 5.2.14 to fix several security issues :

- [CVE-2010-1860](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-1860)

- [CVE-2010-1862](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-1862)

- [CVE-2010-1864](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-1864)

- [CVE-2010-1914](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-1914)

- [CVE-2010-1915](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-1915)

- [CVE-2010-1917](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-1917)

- [CVE-2010-2093](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2093)

- [CVE-2010-2094](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2094)

- [CVE-2010-2097](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2097)

- [CVE-2010-2100](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2100)

- [CVE-2010-2101](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2101)

- [CVE-2010-2190](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2190)

- [CVE-2010-2191](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2191)

- [CVE-2010-2225](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2225)

- [CVE-2010-2484](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2484)

- [CVE-2010-2531](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-2531)

- [CVE-2010-3062](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-3062)

- [CVE-2010-3063](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-3063)

- [CVE-2010-3064](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-3064)

- [CVE-2010-3065](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?nam e=CVE-2010-3065)

Auke van Slooten discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain xmlrpc requests. An attacker could exploit this issue to cause the PHP server to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2010-0397)

It was discovered that the pseudorandom number generator in PHP did not provide the expected entropy. An attacker could exploit this issue to predict values that were intended to be random, such as session cookies. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2010-1128)

It was discovered that PHP did not properly handle directory pathnames that lacked a trailing slash character. An attacker could exploit this issue to bypass safe_mode restrictions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, 8.04 LTS, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2010-1129)

Grzegorz Stachowiak discovered that the PHP session extension did not properly handle semicolon characters. An attacker could exploit this issue to bypass safe_mode restrictions. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.04 and 9.10. (CVE-2010-1130)

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly decoded remote HTTP chunked encoding streams. An attacker could exploit this issue to cause the PHP server to crash and possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
(CVE-2010-1866)

Mateusz Kocielski discovered that certain PHP SQLite functions incorrectly handled empty SQL queries. An attacker could exploit this issue to possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges.
(CVE-2010-1868)

Mateusz Kocielski discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain arguments to the fnmatch function. An attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the PHP server to consume all available stack memory, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2010-1917)

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain strings in the phar extension. An attacker could exploit this flaw to possibly view sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
(CVE-2010-2094, CVE-2010-2950)

Stefan Esser discovered that PHP incorrectly handled deserialization of SPLObjectStorage objects. A remote attacker could exploit this issue to view sensitive information and possibly execute arbitrary code with application privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 9.04, 9.10 and 10.04 LTS. (CVE-2010-2225)

It was discovered that PHP incorrectly filtered error messages when limits for memory, execution time, or recursion were exceeded. A remote attacker could exploit this issue to possibly view sensitive information. (CVE-2010-2531)

Stefan Esser discovered that the PHP session serializer incorrectly handled the PS_UNDEF_MARKER marker. An attacker could exploit this issue to alter arbitrary session variables. (CVE-2010-3065).

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

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP 5, an hypertext preprocessor. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

  - CVE-2010-1917     The fnmatch function can be abused to conduct denial of     service attacks (by crashing the interpreter) by the     means of a stack overflow.

  - CVE-2010-2225     The SplObjectStorage unserializer allows attackers to     execute arbitrary code via serialized data by the means     of a use-after-free vulnerability.

  - CVE-2010-3065     The default sessions serializer does not correctly     handle a special marker, which allows an attacker to     inject arbitrary variables into the session and possibly     exploit vulnerabilities in the unserializer.

  - CVE-2010-1128     For this vulnerability (predictable entropy for the     Linear Congruential Generator used to generate session     ids) we do not consider upstream's solution to be     sufficient. It is recommended to uncomment     the'session.entropy_file' and 'session.entropy_length'     settings in the php.ini files. Further improvements can     be achieved by setting'session.hash_function' to 1 (one)     and incrementing the value of'session.entropy_length'.

According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.3 installed on the remote host is older than 5.3.3.  Such versions may be affected by several security issues :

  - An error exists when processing invalid XML-RPC     requests that can lead to a NULL pointer     dereference. (bug #51288) (CVE-2010-0397)

  - An error exists in the function 'shm_put_var' that     is related to resource destruction.

  - An error exists in the function 'fnmatch' that can lead     to stack exhaustion. (CVE-2010-1917)

  - A memory corruption error exists related to call-time     pass by reference and callbacks.

  - The dechunking filter is vulnerable to buffer overflow.

  - An error exists in the sqlite extension that could     allow arbitrary memory access.

  - An error exists in the 'phar' extension related to     string format validation.

  - The functions 'mysqlnd_list_fields' and     'mysqlnd_change_user' are vulnerable to buffer overflow.

  - The Mysqlnd extension is vulnerable to buffer overflow     attack when handling error packets.

  - The following functions are not properly protected     against function interruptions :

    addcslashes, chunk_split, html_entity_decode,     iconv_mime_decode, iconv_substr, iconv_mime_encode,     htmlentities, htmlspecialchars, str_getcsv,     http_build_query, strpbrk, strtr, str_pad,     str_word_count, wordwrap, strtok, setcookie,     strip_tags, trim, ltrim, rtrim, substr_replace,     parse_str, pack, unpack, uasort, preg_match, strrchr     (CVE-2010-1860, CVE-2010-1862, CVE-2010-1864,     CVE-2010-2097, CVE-2010-2100, CVE-2010-2101,     CVE-2010-2190, CVE-2010-2191, CVE-2010-2484)

  - The following opcodes are not properly protected     against function interruptions :

    ZEND_CONCAT, ZEND_ASSIGN_CONCAT, ZEND_FETCH_RW, XOR     (CVE-2010-2191)

  - The default session serializer contains an error     that can be exploited when assigning session     variables having user defined names. Arbitrary     serialized values can be injected into sessions by     including the PS_UNDEF_MARKER, '!', character in     variable names.

  - A use-after-free error exists in the function     'spl_object_storage_attach'. (CVE-2010-2225)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the     function 'var_export' when handling certain error     conditions. (CVE-2010-2531)

According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.2 installed on the remote host is older than 5.2.14.  Such versions may be affected by several security issues :

  - An error exists when processing invalid XML-RPC     requests that can lead to a NULL pointer     dereference. (bug #51288) (CVE-2010-0397)

  - An error exists in the function 'fnmatch' that can lead     to stack exhaustion.

  - An error exists in the sqlite extension that could     allow arbitrary memory access.

  - A memory corruption error exists in the function     'substr_replace'.

  - The following functions are not properly protected     against function interruptions :

    addcslashes, chunk_split, html_entity_decode,     iconv_mime_decode, iconv_substr, iconv_mime_encode,     htmlentities, htmlspecialchars, str_getcsv,     http_build_query, strpbrk, strstr, str_pad,     str_word_count, wordwrap, strtok, setcookie,     strip_tags, trim, ltrim, rtrim, parse_str, pack, unpack,     uasort, preg_match, strrchr, strchr, substr, str_repeat     (CVE-2010-1860, CVE-2010-1862, CVE-2010-1864,     CVE-2010-2097, CVE-2010-2100, CVE-2010-2101,     CVE-2010-2190, CVE-2010-2191, CVE-2010-2484)

  - The following opcodes are not properly protected     against function interruptions :

    ZEND_CONCAT, ZEND_ASSIGN_CONCAT, ZEND_FETCH_RW     (CVE-2010-2191)

  - The default session serializer contains an error     that can be exploited when assigning session     variables having user defined names. Arbitrary     serialized values can be injected into sessions by     including the PS_UNDEF_MARKER, '!', character in     variable names.

  - A use-after-free error exists in the function     'spl_object_storage_attach'. (CVE-2010-2225)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the     function 'var_export' when handling certain error     conditions. (CVE-2010-2531)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
75429	openSUSE Security Update : apache2-mod_php5 (openSUSE-SU-2010:0599-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
68150	Oracle Linux 4 / 5 : php (ELSA-2010-0919)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
60908	Scientific Linux Security Update : php on SL4.x, SL5.x i386/x86_64	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
56459	GLSA-201110-06 : PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
50890	SuSE 11 / 11.1 Security Update : Apache 2 (SAT Patch Numbers 2880 / 2881)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
50862	CentOS 4 / 5 : php (CESA-2010:0919)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
50841	RHEL 4 / 5 : php (RHSA-2010:0919)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
49830	SuSE 10 Security Update : Linux kernel (ZYPP Patch Number 7110)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
49752	openSUSE Security Update : apache2-mod_php5 (openSUSE-SU-2010:0678-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
49306	Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : php5 vulnerabilities (USN-989-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
49210	openSUSE Security Update : apache2-mod_php5 (openSUSE-SU-2010:0599-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
48384	Debian DSA-2089-1 : php5 - several vulnerabilities	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
48245	PHP 5.3 < 5.3.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	CGI abuses	high
48244	PHP 5.2 < 5.2.14 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	CGI abuses	high

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