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GLSA-200703-21 : PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities
critical Nessus Plugin ID 24887
Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200703-21 (PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities)Several vulnerabilities were found in PHP by the Hardened-PHP Project and other researchers. These vulnerabilities include a heap-based buffer overflow in htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() if called with UTF-8 parameters, and an off-by-one error in str_ireplace(). Other vulnerabilities were also found in the PHP4 branch, including possible overflows, stack corruptions and a format string vulnerability in the
*print() functions on 64 bit systems.
Impact :
Remote attackers might be able to exploit these issues in PHP applications making use of the affected functions, potentially resulting in the execution of arbitrary code, Denial of Service, execution of scripted contents in the context of the affected site, security bypass or information leak.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Solution
All PHP users should upgrade to the latest version:# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose 'dev-lang/php'
See Also
http://www.php.net/releases/4_4_5.php
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 24887
File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200703-21.nasl
Version: 1.20
Type: local
Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks
Published: 3/26/2007
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.3
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 8.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:php, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2007
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2006
Exploitable With
Metasploit (PHP 4 unserialize() ZVAL Reference Counter Overflow (Cookie))
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2006-5465, CVE-2007-0906, CVE-2007-0907, CVE-2007-0908, CVE-2007-0909, CVE-2007-0910, CVE-2007-0911, CVE-2007-0988, CVE-2007-1286, CVE-2007-1375, CVE-2007-1376, CVE-2007-1380, CVE-2007-1383