Debian DSA-1572-1 : php5 - several vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 32306

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2007-3806 The glob function allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid value of the flags parameter.

- CVE-2008-1384 Integer overflow allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly have other impact via a printf format parameter with a large width specifier.

- CVE-2008-2050 Stack-based buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI.

- CVE-2008-2051 The escapeshellcmd API function could be attacked via incomplete multibyte chars.

Solution

Upgrade the php5 package.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 5.2.0-8+etch11.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 32306

File Name: debian_DSA-1572.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php5, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3806, CVE-2008-1384, CVE-2008-2050, CVE-2008-2051

BID: 25498, 29009

CWE: 119, 189, 20, 399

DSA: 1572

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