Debian DSA-2266-1 : php5 - several vulnerabilities
High Nessus Plugin ID 55486
Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
Description
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, which could lead to denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
- CVE-2010-2531 An information leak was found in the var_export() function.
- CVE-2011-0421 The Zip module could crash.
- CVE-2011-0708 An integer overflow was discovered in the Exif module.
- CVE-2011-1466 An integer overflow was discovered in the Calendar module.
- CVE-2011-1471 The Zip module was prone to denial of service through malformed archives.
- CVE-2011-2202 Path names in form based file uploads (RFC 1867) were incorrectly validated.
This update also fixes two bugs, which are not treated as security issues, but fixed nonetheless, see README.Debian.security for details on the scope of security support for PHP (CVE-2011-0420, CVE-2011-1153 ).
Solution
Upgrade the php5 packages.
For the oldstable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny12.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 5.3.3-7+squeeze3.