Fedora 29 : php (2018-08ceba4f8f)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120222

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**PHP version 7.2.12** (08 Nov 2018)

**Core:**

- Fixed bug php#76846 (Segfault in shutdown function after memory limit error). (Nikita)

- Fixed bug php#76946 (Cyclic reference in generator not detected). (Nikita)

- Fixed bug php#77035 (The phpize and ./configure create redundant .deps file). (Peter Kokot)

- Fixed bug php#77041 (buildconf should output error messages to stderr) (Mizunashi Mana)

**Date:**

- Upgraded timelib to 2017.08. (Derick)

- Fixed bug php#75851 (Year component overflow with date formats 'c', 'o', 'r' and 'y'). (Adam Saponara)

- Fixed bug php#77007 (fractions in `diff()` are not correctly normalized). (Derick)

**FCGI:**

- Fixed php#76948 (Failed shutdown/reboot or end session in Windows). (Anatol)

- Fixed bug php#76954 (apache_response_headers removes last character from header name). (stodorovic)

**FTP:**

- Fixed bug php#76972 (Data truncation due to forceful ssl socket shutdown). (Manuel Mausz)

**intl:**

- Fixed bug php#76942 (U_ARGUMENT_TYPE_MISMATCH). (anthrax at unixuser dot org)

**Reflection:**

- Fixed bug php#76936 (Objects cannot access their private attributes while handling reflection errors). (Nikita)

- Fixed bug php#66430 (ReflectionFunction::invoke does not invoke closure with object scope). (Nikita)

**Sodium:**

- Some base64 outputs were truncated; this is not the case any more. (jedisct1)

- block sizes >= 256 bytes are now supposed by sodium_pad() even when an old version of libsodium has been installed. (jedisct1)

- Fixed bug php#77008 (sodium_pad() could read (but not return nor write) uninitialized memory when trying to pad an empty input). (jedisct1)

**Standard:**

- Fixed bug php#76965 (INI_SCANNER_RAW doesn't strip trailing whitespace). (Pierrick)

**Tidy:**

- Fixed bug php#77027 (tidy::getOptDoc() not available on Windows). (cmb)

**XML:**

- Fixed bug php#30875 (xml_parse_into_struct() does not resolve entities). (cmb)

- Add support for getting SKIP_TAGSTART and SKIP_WHITE options. (cmb)

**XMLRPC:**

- Fixed bug php#75282 (xmlrpc_encode_request() crashes).
(cmb)

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Solution

Update the affected php package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-08ceba4f8f

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120222

File Name: fedora_2018-08ceba4f8f.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2018

Reference Information