Oracle Linux 7 : php (ELSA-2014-1327)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78005

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2014-1327 advisory.

- gd: fix NULL pointer dereference in gdImageCreateFromXpm().
CVE-2014-2497
- gd: fix NUL byte injection in file names. CVE-2014-5120
- fileinfo: fix extensive backtracking in regular expression (incomplete fix for CVE-2013-7345). CVE-2014-3538
- fileinfo: fix mconvert incorrect handling of truncated pascal string size. CVE-2014-3478
- fileinfo: fix cdf_read_property_info (incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1571). CVE-2014-3587
- spl: fix use-after-free in ArrayIterator due to object change during sorting. CVE-2014-4698
- spl: fix use-after-free in SPL Iterators. CVE-2014-4670

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle 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

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1327.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78005

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2014-1327.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/1/2014

Updated: 4/29/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3597

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-3538

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-process, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-intl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-pspell, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-common, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-snmp, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-recode, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:php

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/30/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/21/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2497, CVE-2014-3478, CVE-2014-3538, CVE-2014-3587, CVE-2014-3597, CVE-2014-4670, CVE-2014-4698, CVE-2014-5120

BID: 52225, 66233, 66406, 68007, 68239, 68348, 68511, 68513, 69322, 69325, 69375

RHSA: 2014:1327