openSUSE 15 Security Update : php7 (openSUSE-SU-2022:0847-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159039

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2022:0847-1 advisory.

- In PHP versions 7.4.x below 7.4.28, 8.0.x below 8.0.16, and 8.1.x below 8.1.3, when using filter functions with FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT filter and min/max limits, if the filter fails, there is a possibility to trigger use of allocated memory after free, which can result it crashes, and potentially in overwrite of other memory chunks and RCE. This issue affects: code that uses FILTER_VALIDATE_FLOAT with min/max limits.
(CVE-2021-21708)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 159039

File Name: openSUSE-2022-0847-1.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 3/17/2022

Updated: 11/6/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21708

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:apache2-mod_php7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-embed, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-firebird, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:php7-zlib, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.3

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: 3/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21708

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