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MiracleLinux 3 : php-5.1.6-39.0.1.AXS3 (AXSA:2012-687:05)
high Nessus Plugin ID 283898
Synopsis
The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote MiracleLinux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2012-687:05 advisory.PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language that allows developers to write dynamically generated web pages. PHP is ideal for writing database-enabled websites, with built-in integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems. PHP is often used as a replacement for CGI scripts.
The php package contains a module that adds support for the PHP language to the Apache HTTP Server.
Security issues fixed with this release:
CVE-2011-4153 PHP 5.3.8 does not always check the return value of the zend_strndup function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via crafted input to an application that performs strndup operations on untrusted string data, as demonstrated by the define function in zend_builtin_functions.c, and unspecified functions in ext/soap/php_sdl.c, ext/standard/syslog.c, ext/standard/browscap.c, ext/oci8/oci8.c, ext/com_dotnet/com_typeinfo.c, and main/php_open_temporary_file.c.
CVE-2012-0057 PHP before 5.3.9 has improper libxslt security settings, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via a crafted XSLT stylesheet that uses the libxslt output extension.
CVE-2012-0789 Memory leak in the timezone functionality in PHP before 5.3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering many strtotime function calls, which are not properly handled by the php_date_parse_tzfile cache.
CVE-2012-1172 The file-upload implementation in rfc1867.c in PHP before 5.4.0 does not properly handle invalid [ (open square bracket) characters in name values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malformed $_FILES indexes) or conduct directory traversal attacks during multi-file uploads by leveraging a script that lacks its own filename restrictions.
CVE-2012-2336 sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in PHP before 5.3.13 and 5.4.x before 5.4.3, when configured as a CGI script (aka php- cgi), does not properly handle query strings that lack an = (equals sign) character, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by placing command-line options in the query string, related to lack of skipping a certain php_getopt for the 'T' case. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1823.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux 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
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 283898
File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2012-687.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Published: 1/14/2026
Updated: 1/14/2026
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.6
Vendor
Vendor Severity: High
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0057
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 7.2
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-2336
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-common, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-dba, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:3, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-oci8, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-ncurses, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:php-imap
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/2/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2011
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-4153, CVE-2012-0057, CVE-2012-0789, CVE-2012-1172, CVE-2012-2336
IAVB: 2013-B-0075-S