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AlmaLinux 9 : php (ALSA-2025:7431)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 237001

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2025:7431 advisory.

 * php: Header parser of http stream wrapper does not handle folded headers (CVE-2025-1217)
 * php: Stream HTTP wrapper header check might omit basic auth header (CVE-2025-1736)
 * php: Streams HTTP wrapper does not fail for headers with invalid name and no colon (CVE-2025-1734)
 * php: libxml streams use wrong content-type header when requesting a redirected resource (CVE-2025-1219)
 * php: Stream HTTP wrapper truncates redirect location to 1024 bytes (CVE-2025-1861)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:7431

https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2025-7431.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 237001

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2025-7431.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/21/2025

Updated: 5/21/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1219

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Threat Score: 2.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1861

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-gd, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-process, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-common, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-dbg, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-ffi, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-gmp, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-dba, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-xml, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-intl, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-soap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-mbstring, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-opcache, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php, cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:php-fpm

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/AlmaLinux/release, Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1217, CVE-2025-1219, CVE-2025-1734, CVE-2025-1736, CVE-2025-1861

CWE: 131, 20

RHSA: 2025:7431