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Fedora 27 : php (2018-25100b492c)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 117646

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**PHP version 7.1.22** (13 Sep 2018)

**Core:**

 - Fixed bug php#76754 (parent private constant in extends class memory leak). (Laruence)

 - Fixed bug php#72443 (Generate enabled extension). (petk)

**Apache2:**

 - Fixed bug php#76582 (Apache bucket brigade sometimes becomes invalid). (stas)

**Bz2:**

 - Fixed arginfo for bzcompress. (Tyson Andre)

**gettext:**

 - Fixed bug php#76517 (incorrect restoring of LDFLAGS).
 (sji)

**iconv:**

 - Fixed bug php#68180 (iconv_mime_decode can return extra characters in a header). (cmb)

 - Fixed bug php#63839 (iconv_mime_decode_headers function is skipping headers). (cmb)

 - Fixed bug php#60494 (iconv_mime_decode does ignore special characters). (cmb)

 - Fixed bug php#55146 (iconv_mime_decode_headers() skips some headers). (cmb)

**intl:**

 - Fixed bug php#74484 (MessageFormatter::formatMessage memory corruption with 11+ named placeholders). (Anatol)

**libxml:**

 - Fixed bug php#76777 ('public id' parameter of libxml_set_external_entity_loader callback undefined).
 (Ville Hukkamäki)

**mbstring:**

 - Fixed bug php#76704 (mb_detect_order return value varies based on argument type). (cmb)

**Opcache:**

 - Fixed bug php#76747 (Opcache treats path containing 'test.pharma.tld' as a phar file). (Laruence)

**OpenSSL:**

 - Fixed bug php#76705 (unusable ssl => peer_fingerprint in stream_context_create()). (Jakub Zelenka)

**phpdbg:**

 - Fixed bug php#76595 (phpdbg man page contains outdated information). (Kevin Abel)

**SPL:**

 - Fixed bug php#68825 (Exception in DirectoryIterator::getLinkTarget()). (cmb)

 - Fixed bug php#68175 (RegexIterator pregFlags are NULL instead of 0). (Tim Siebels)

**Standard:**

 - Fixed bug php#76778 (array_reduce leaks memory if callback throws exception). (cmb)

**zlib:**

 - Fixed bug php#65988 (Zlib version check fails when an include/zlib/ style dir is passed to the --with-zlib configure option). (Jay Bonci)

 - Fixed bug php#76709 (Minimal required zlib library is 1.2.0.4). (petk)

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Solution

Update the affected php package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-25100b492c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117646

File Name: fedora_2018-25100b492c.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2018

Updated: 8/6/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17082

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17082