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SUSE SLES15: apache2-mod_php7 / php7 / php7-bcmath / php7-bz2 / php7-calendar / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:0679-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158582

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0679-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2021-21703: Fixed local privilege escalation via PHP-FPM (bsc#1192050).
 - CVE-2021-21707: Fixed special character breaks path in xml parsing (bsc#1193041).
 - CVE-2017-8923: Fixed denial of service (application crash) when using .= with a long string (zend_string_extend func in Zend/zend_string.h) (bsc#1038980).
 - CVE-2015-9253: Fixed endless loop when the master process restarts a child process using program execution functions (bsc#1081790).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1038980

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1081790

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1192050

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1193041

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-9253

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8923

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21703

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21707

http://www.nessus.org/u?b00aa210

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158582

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0679-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/3/2022

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 97.16

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 Score Source: CVE-2017-8923

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:php7-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-pear, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-wddx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-xmlrpc, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-pear-archive_tar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php7-ftp

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: 3/2/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-9253, CVE-2017-8923, CVE-2021-21703, CVE-2021-21707

IAVA: 2021-A-0503-S, 2021-A-0566-S

IAVB: 2017-B-0060-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0679-1