Detections
Analytics

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php5 (SUSE-SU-2016:1277-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 119976

Language:

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for php5 fixes the following security issues :

 - CVE-2016-4073: A remote attacker could have caused denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code, due to incorrect handling of string length calculations in mb_strcut() (bsc#977003)

 - CVE-2015-8867: The PHP function openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() did not return cryptographically secure random bytes (bsc#977005)

 - CVE-2016-4070: The libxml_disable_entity_loader() setting was shared between threads, which could have resulted in XML external entity injection and entity expansion issues (bsc#976997)

 - CVE-2015-8866: A remote attacker could have caused denial of service due to incorrect handling of large strings in php_raw_url_encode() (bsc#976996)

 - CVE-2016-4071: A remote attacker could have caused denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code, due to incorrect handling of string formatting in php_snmp_error() (bsc#977000)

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-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP1-2016-752=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2016-752=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-12-2016-752=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976996

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976997

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977000

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977003

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977005

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8866/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8867/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4070/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4071/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-4073/

http://www.nessus.org/u?98cc452f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 119976

File Name: suse_SU-2016-1277-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-bcmath-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-bz2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-calendar-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ctype-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-curl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-dba-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-dom-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-enchant-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-exif-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-fastcgi-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-fileinfo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-fpm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ftp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gd-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gettext-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-gmp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-iconv-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-intl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-json-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mbstring-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mcrypt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mcrypt-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-odbc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-opcache-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-openssl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pcntl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pdo-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pgsql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-phar-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-posix-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pspell, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-pspell-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-shmop-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-snmp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-soap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sockets-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-suhosin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-suhosin-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvmsg-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvsem-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-sysvshm-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-tokenizer-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-wddx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-wddx-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlreader-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlrpc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xmlwriter-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-xsl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-zip-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php5-zlib-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8866, CVE-2015-8867, CVE-2016-4070, CVE-2016-4071, CVE-2016-4073