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VPR Score: 6.7
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update of PHP5 brings several security fixes.
Security fixes :
- CVE-2015-6831: A use after free vulnerability in unserialize() has been fixed which could be used to crash php or potentially execute code. [bnc#942291] [bnc#942294] [bnc#942295]
- CVE-2015-6832: A dangling pointer in the unserialization of ArrayObject items could be used to crash php or potentially execute code. [bnc#942293]
- CVE-2015-6833: A directory traversal when extracting ZIP files could be used to overwrite files outside of intended area. [bnc#942296]
- CVE-2015-6834: A Use After Free Vulnerability in unserialize() has been fixed which could be used to crash php or potentially execute code. [bnc#945403]
- CVE-2015-6835: A Use After Free Vulnerability in session unserialize() has been fixed which could be used to crash php or potentially execute code. [bnc#945402]
- CVE-2015-6836: A SOAP serialize_function_call() type confusion leading to remote code execution problem was fixed. [bnc#945428]
- CVE-2015-6837 CVE-2015-6838: Two NULL pointer dereferences in the XSLTProcessor class were fixed.
[bnc#945412]
Bugfixes :
- Compare with SQL_NULL_DATA correctly [bnc#935074]
- If MD5 was disabled in net-snmp we have to disable the used MD5 function in ext/snmp/snmp.c as well.
(bsc#944302)
Also the Suhosin framework was updated to 0.9.38. [fate#319325]
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-603=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-12-2015-603=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.