SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php53 (SUSE-SU-2015:1818-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 86616

Synopsis

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

Description

This update of PHP5 brings several security fixes.

Security fixes :

- CVE-2015-6831: A use after free vulnerability in unserialize() has been fixed which could be used to crash php or potentially execute code. [bnc#942291] [bnc#942294] [bnc#942295]

- CVE-2015-6836: A SOAP serialize_function_call() type confusion leading to remote code execution problem was fixed. [bnc#945428]

- CVE-2015-6837 CVE-2015-6838: Two NULL pointer dereferences in the XSLTProcessor class were fixed.
[bnc#945412]

It also includes a bugfix for the odbc module :

- compare with SQL_NULL_DATA correctly [bnc#935074]

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-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-php53-12163=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-php53-12163=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-php53-12163=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-php53-12163=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-php53-12163=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-php53-12163=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-php53-12163=1

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

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935074

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=942291

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=942294

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=942295

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=942296

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=945412

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=945428

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6831/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6833/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6836/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6837/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-6838/

http://www.nessus.org/u?db1bd10e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 86616

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1818-1.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/27/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/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: 9/22/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-6831, CVE-2015-6833, CVE-2015-6836, CVE-2015-6837, CVE-2015-6838