PHP 5.5.x < 5.5.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72882

Synopsis

The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.5.x installed on the remote host is a version prior to 5.5.10. It is, therefore, potentially affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- An error exists related to the Fileinfo extension and the bundled libmagic library that could allow denial of service attacks. (CVE-2014-1943)

- An error exists related to the Fileinfo extension and the process of analyzing Portable Executable (PE) format files that could allow denial of service attacks or possibly arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2014-2270)

- The fix for CVE-2013-7327 was incomplete and NULL pointers can still be dereferenced. (Bug #66815)

Note that this plugin does not attempt to exploit these issues, but instead relies only on PHP's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to PHP version 5.5.10 or later.

See Also

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.5.10

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66731

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66815

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66820

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72882

File Name: php_5_5_10.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 3/7/2014

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-1943

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:php:php

Required KB Items: www/PHP

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-1943, CVE-2014-2270

BID: 65596, 66002