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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php53 (SUSE-SU-2021:14668-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 150675

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES11 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2021:14668-1 advisory.

 - In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.27, 7.4.x below 7.4.15 and 8.0.x below 8.0.2, when using SOAP extension to connect to a SOAP server, a malicious SOAP server could return malformed XML data as a response that would cause PHP to access a null pointer and thus cause a crash. (CVE-2021-21702)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1182049

http://www.nessus.org/u?4d179d47

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21702

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 150675

File Name: suse_SU-2021-14668-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/10/2021

Updated: 6/10/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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-2021-21702

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-wddx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-suhosin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pspell, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php53, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-mcrypt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pear, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-xmlwriter

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21702

IAVA: 2021-A-0082-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:14668-1