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VPR Score: 5.9
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for php53 fixes the following issues :
- CVE-2015-8838: mysqlnd was vulnerable to BACKRONYM (bnc#973792).
- CVE-2015-8835: SoapClient s_call method suffered from a type confusion issue that could have lead to crashes [bsc#973351]
- CVE-2016-2554: A NULL pointer dereference in phar_get_fp_offset could lead to crashes. [bsc#968284] Note: we do not ship the phar extension currently, so we are not affected.
- CVE-2015-7803: A Stack overflow vulnerability when decompressing tar phar archives could potentially lead to code execution. [bsc#949961] Note: we do not ship the phar extension currently, so we are not affected.
- CVE-2016-3141: A use-after-free / double-free in the WDDX deserialization could lead to crashes or potential code execution. [bsc#969821]
- CVE-2016-3142: An Out-of-bounds read in phar_parse_zipfile() could lead to crashes. [bsc#971912] Note: we do not ship the phar extension currently, so we are not affected.
- CVE-2014-9767: A directory traversal when extracting zip files was fixed that could lead to overwritten files.
[bsc#971612]
- CVE-2016-3185: A type confusion vulnerability in make_http_soap_request() could lead to crashes or potentially code execution. [bsc#971611]
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-php53-12527=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :
zypper in -t patch slessp4-php53-12527=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :
zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-php53-12527=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.