Fedora 20 : php-5.5.11-1.fc20 (2014-4767)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 73542

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

03 Apr 2014, PHP 5.5.11

Core :

- Allow zero length comparison in substr_compare() (Tjerk)

- Fixed bug #60602 (proc_open() changes environment array) (Tjerk)

SPL :

- Added feature #65545 (SplFileObject::fread()) (Tjerk)

cURL :

- Fixed bug #66109 (Can't reset CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST to default behaviour) (Tjerk)

- Fix compilation on libcurl versions between 7.10.5 and 7.12.2, inclusive. (Adam)

FPM :

- Added clear_env configuration directive to disable clearenv() call. (Github PR# 598, Paul Annesley)

Fileinfo :

- Fixed bug #66946 (fileinfo: extensive backtracking in awk rule regular expression). (CVE-2013-7345) (Remi)

GD :

- Fixed bug #66714 (imageconvolution breakage). (Brad Daily)

- Fixed bug #66869 (Invalid 2nd argument crashes imageaffinematrixget) (Pierre)

- Fixed bug #66887 (imagescale - poor quality of scaled image). (Remi)

- Fixed bug #66890 (imagescale segfault). (Remi)

- Fixed bug #66893 (imagescale ignore method argument).
(Remi)

Hash :

- hash_pbkdf2() now works correctly if the $length argument is not specified. (Nikita)

Intl :

- Fixed bug #66873 (A reproductible crash in UConverter when given invalid encoding) (Stas)

Mail :

- Fixed bug #66535 (Don't add newline after X-PHP-Originating-Script) (Tjerk)

MySQLi :

- Fixed bug #66762 (Segfault in mysqli_stmt::bind_result() when link closed) (Remi)

OPCache :

- Added function opcache_is_script_cached(). (Danack)

- Added information about interned strings usage.
(Terry, Julien, Dmitry)

Openssl :

- Fixed bug #66833 (Default disgest algo is still MD5, switch to SHA1). (Remi)

GMP :

- Fixed bug #66872 (invalid argument crashes gmp_testbit) (Pierre)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected php package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1079846

http://www.nessus.org/u?aad326be

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 73542

File Name: fedora_2014-4767.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/16/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-7345

BID: 66406

FEDORA: 2014-4767