SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php53 (SUSE-SU-2018:3018-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 117989

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for php53 fixes the following issue :

CVE-2018-17082: The Apache2 component in PHP allowed XSS via the body of a 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' request, because the bucket brigade was mishandled in the php_handler function (bsc#1108753)

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-php53-13807=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-php53-13807=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-php53-13807=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 117989

File Name: suse_SU-2018-3018-1.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/9/2018

Updated: 7/31/2024

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17082

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