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SUSE SLES15: apache2-mod_php8 / php8 / php8-bcmath / php8-bz2 / php8-calendar / etc (SUSE-SU-2023:0074-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 169932

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0074-1 advisory.

 - Updated to version 8.0.27:
 - CVE-2022-31631: Fixed an issue where PDO::quote would return an unquoted string (bsc#1206958).

 Non-security fixes:
 - Fixed a NULL pointer dereference with -w/-s options.
 - Fixed a crash in Generator when interrupted during argument evaluation with extra named params.
 - Fixed a crash in Generator when memory limit was exceeded during initialization.
 - Fixed a memory leak in Generator when interrupted during argument evaluation.
 - Fixed an issue in the DateTimeZone constructor where an extra null byte could be added to the input.
 - Fixed a hang in SaltStack when using php-fpm 8.1.11.
 - Fixed mysqli_query warnings being shown despite using silenced error mode.
 - Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when serializing a SOAP response call.

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/1206958

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31631

http://www.nessus.org/u?5202c46d

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 169932

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0074-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/12/2023

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31631

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 1/11/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-31631

IAVA: 2023-A-0016-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0074-1