SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php7 (SUSE-SU-2017:2468-1)
High Nessus Plugin ID 120006
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for php7 fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :
- CVE-2017-12932: Prevent heap use after free while unserializing untrusted data, related to improper use of the hash API for key deletion in a situation with an invalid array size. Exploitation of this issue could have had an unspecified impact on the integrity of PHP (bsc#1054432).
- CVE-2017-12934: Prevent heap use after free while unserializing untrusted data, related to the zval_get_type function in Zend/zend_types.h.
Exploitation of this issue could have had an unspecified impact on the integrity of PHP (bsc#1054408).
- CVE-2017-12933: The finish_nested_data function in ext/standard/var_unserializer.re was prone to a buffer over-read while unserializing untrusted data.
Exploitation of this issue could have had an unspecified impact on the integrity of PHP (bsc#1054430)
The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.
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-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2017-1532=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-1532=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web Scripting 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-12-2017-1532=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.