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Fedora 18 : php-5.4.23-1.fc18 (2013-23215)

high Nessus Plugin ID 71552

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

28 Nov 2013, PHP 5.4.23

Core :

 - Fixed bug #66094 (unregister_tick_function tries to cast a Closure to a string). (Laruence)

 - Fixed bug #65947 (basename is no more working after fgetcsv in certain situation). (Laruence)

JSON

 - Fixed whitespace part of bug #64874 ('json_decode handles whitespace and case-sensitivity incorrectly').
 (Andrea Faulds)

MySQLi :

 - Fixed bug #66043 (Segfault calling bind_param() on mysqli). (Laruence)

mysqlnd :

 - Fixed bug #66124 (mysqli under mysqlnd loses precision when bind_param with 'i'). (Andrey)

 - Fixed bug #66141 (mysqlnd quote function is wrong with NO_BACKSLASH_ESCAPES after failed query). (Andrey)

OpenSSL :

 - Fixed memory corruption in openssl_x509_parse() (CVE-2013-6420). (Stefan Esser).

PDO

 - Fixed bug 65946 (sql_parser permanently converts values bound to strings)

Backported from 5.5.8

 - fix zend_register_functions breaks reflection, php bug 66218

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 php package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036830

http://www.nessus.org/u?3b58a4d9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 71552

File Name: fedora_2013-23215.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6420

FEDORA: 2013-23215