SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php53 (SUSE-SU-2015:1018-1)

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SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php53 (SUSE-SU-2015:1018-1)

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

PHP 5.3 was updated to fix multiple security issues :

bnc#931776: pcntl_exec() does not check path validity (CVE-2015-4026)

bnc#931772: overflow in ftp_genlist() resulting in heap overflow (CVE-2015-4022)

bnc#931769: memory corruption in phar_parse_tarfile when entry filename starts with NULL (CVE-2015-4021)

bnc#931421: multipart/form-data remote denial-of-service vulnerability (CVE-2015-4024)

bnc#928511: buffer over-read in unserialize when parsing Phar (CVE-2015-2783)

bnc#928506: buffer over flow when parsing tar/zip/phar in phar_set_inode() (CVE-2015-3329)

bnc#925109: SoapClient's __call() type confusion through unserialize()

bnc#924972: use-after-free vulnerability in the process_nested_data function (CVE-2015-2787)

bnc#923946: embedded gd copy: buffer read overflow in gd_gif_in.c (CVE-2014-9709)

bnc#922452: built-in regular expression (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability (CVE-2015-2305)

bnc#922451: heap buffer overflow in enchant_broker_request_dict() (CVE-2014-9705)

bnc#922022: php's built-in regular expression (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability (CVE-2015-2301)

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-apache2-mod_php53=10716

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 for VMware :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-apache2-mod_php53=10716

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-apache2-mod_php53=10716

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 84082

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1018-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/10/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php53, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-mcrypt, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pear, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-pspell, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-suhosin, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-wddx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php53-zlib, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/30/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9705, CVE-2014-9709, CVE-2015-2301, CVE-2015-2305, CVE-2015-2783, CVE-2015-2787, CVE-2015-3329, CVE-2015-4021, CVE-2015-4022, CVE-2015-4024, CVE-2015-4026

BID: 72611, 73031, 73037, 73306, 73431, 74239, 74240, 74700, 74902, 74903, 75056