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Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0318: php (ALINUX3-SA-2026:0318)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 371208

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2026:0318 advisory.

 Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

 CVE-2025-1218:
 The mysqlnd wire protocol parser reads fields out of server packets before checking that the packet still holds enough bytes for them. A malicious or compromised MySQL server can send a truncated packet and make the client read past the end of the packet buffer, which is undefined behaviour and can crash the process.

 CVE-2025-14181:
 The SOAP HTTP client guards its response buffer growth with a check that relies on signed integer overflow, which is undefined behaviour and is not guaranteed to trigger. When the check is optimised away, a malicious SOAP server can make the client allocate a buffer far smaller than the data it then writes into it, producing a heap buffer overflow.

 CVE-2026-109618:
 PHP uses longjmp() for out-of-memory (OOM) errors to exit the current context and abort handling of the request. Some contexts may not properly account for this scenario and leave request memory in an uninitialized state before performing an allocation. The subsequent request cleanup procedure may read or branch on this memory. Multiple OOM strategies can consistently trigger this condition and lead to remote code execution (RCE).

 CVE-2026-109619:
 PHP has various global state that temporarily points into request memory. In some scenarios, global state may not be correctly reset, or may be repopulated after being reset. The global state may then refer to request memory even after it has been freed. Subsequent requests may read or branch on this stale state before it is fully initialized. Multiple strategies can trigger this condition and produce remote code execution (RCE).

 CVE-2026-6103:
 phar_tar_number() parses the octal size field of a TAR header into a uint32_t with no overflow check. The field is 11 octal digits wide and holds values up to 0x1FFFFFFFF, so a size above 0xFFFFFFFF silently wraps. The parser then skips the wrong number of data blocks and interprets attacker-controlled file content as the next TAR header, which lets a crafted archive inject entries that PharData reports and extracts as if they were genuine.

 CVE-2026-91765:
 cleanup_xml_node() in the SOAP XML parser recurses once per XML nesting level with no depth limit. An unauthenticated attacker can post a SOAP request containing tens of thousands of nested elements to any SoapServer endpoint, exhaust the stack and crash the process. The same unbounded recursion exists in the SOAP value decoder and in the WSDL node search helper.

 CVE-2026-91766:
 When the http:// stream wrapper follows a redirect it forwards the user-supplied Authorization, Cookie and Proxy-Authorization headers unchanged, even when the redirect target is a different host, a different port, or a downgrade from HTTPS to HTTP. A server that can steer a redirect therefore receives credentials that were only meant for the original origin. This is the same class of issue that libcurl fixed in 7.58.0 ( CVE-2018-1000007 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g7x2-hrfp-pv5f ).

 CVE-2026-91767:
 php_openssl_matches_wildcard_name() in ext/openssl/xp_ssl.c underflows the length argument passed to memchr() when a TLS server certificate presents a wildcard name whose literal characters are together longer than the hostname being verified. A malicious server presenting such a certificate makes the PHP client read up to SIZE_MAX bytes past the end of a heap allocation. The path is reachable from any default client stream, because verify_peer_name is enabled by default.

 CVE-2026-91768:
 The IPv6 branch of the FastCGI client access check compares only the first 12 bytes of a 16-byte IPv6 address, so listen.allowed_clients matches on a /96 prefix instead of the exact address. An attacker who can source an address sharing the first 96 bits with an allowed one passes the check and reaches the FastCGI endpoint.

 CVE-2026-91769:
 PHP's OpenSSL stream peer verification checks the certificate's subjectAltName entries first and, whenever no entry matches, falls back to the Common Name. RFC 6125 requires the CN to be ignored once the certificate presents any service identity, so a certificate carrying a non-matching DNS SAN was still accepted when its CN matched the requested peer_name. A certificate trusted by the client for one name can therefore be used to impersonate another.

 CVE-2026-92842:
 The convert.base64-encode, convert.quoted-printable-encode and convert.quoted-printable-decode stream filters accept a line-break-chars option whose length is tracked separately from the string itself. The filter constructors duplicate the value with pestrdup(), which stops at the first NUL byte, while keeping the original length. When the filter later emits a line break it copies the recorded length out of the truncated allocation, reading past its end and placing adjacent heap bytes into the filter output.

 CVE-2026-93682:
 When the HTTP stream wrapper follows a redirect and the response carries a Location header with an empty value, the redirect code reads one byte past the end of the heap buffer holding the location. The value of that out-of-bounds byte decides which redirect target is built, so a malicious server controls whether the client is sent to the host root or to the current directory.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux 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

http://mirrors.aliyun.com/alinux/3/cve/alinux3-sa-20260318.xml

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 371208

File Name: alinux3_sa_2026-0318.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/23/2026

Updated: 10/23/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

Percentile: 99.83

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-109618

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.2

Threat Score: 9.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:A

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-109619

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-common, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-dbg, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-ffi, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-gmp, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-intl, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-json, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-opcache, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-process, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:php

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1218, CVE-2025-14181, CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619, CVE-2026-6103, CVE-2026-91765, CVE-2026-91766, CVE-2026-91767, CVE-2026-91768, CVE-2026-91769, CVE-2026-92842, CVE-2026-93682