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SUSE SLES15: apache2-mod_php8 / php8 / php8-bcmath / php8-bz2 / php8-calendar / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:3661-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 166300

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3661-1 advisory.

 - php8 was updated to version 8.0.24
 - php8 was updated to version 8.0.23 (jsc#SLE-23639).
 - CVE-2021-21703: Fixed a local privilege escalation via PHP-FPM. (bsc#1192050)
 - CVE-2022-31628: Fixed an uncontrolled recursion in the phar uncompressor while decompressing 'quines' gzip files. (bsc#1203867)
 - CVE-2022-31629: Fixed a bug which could lead an attacker to set an insecure cookie that will treated as secure in the victim's browser. (bsc#1203870)
 - Fixed missing devel package requires pear and pecl extensions (jsc#SLE-24723, bsc#1200772).

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/1192050

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1200772

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1203867

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1203870

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

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31628

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31629

http://www.nessus.org/u?423d496b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166300

File Name: suse_SU-2022-3661-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2022

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: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21703

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/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:php8-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-embed, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php8, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-cli, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-soap, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php8-mysql

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: 10/19/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21703, CVE-2022-31628, CVE-2022-31629

IAVA: 2021-A-0503-S, 2022-A-0397-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:3661-1