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SUSE SLES12: apache2-mod_php74 / php74 / php74-bcmath / php74-bz2 / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:0654-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 159170

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:0654-1 advisory.

 - CVE-2021-21708: Fixed use after free due to php_filter_float() failing for ints (bsc#1196252).

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

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/1196252

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21708

http://www.nessus.org/u?83f58e3c

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 159170

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0654-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/23/2022

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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: 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:php74-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sqlite, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php74, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-dba

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: 3/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21708

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0654-1