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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : php72 (SUSE-SU-2021:2638-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152269

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2638-1 advisory.

 - In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.29, 7.4.x below 7.4.21 and 8.0.x below 8.0.8, when using Firebird PDO driver extension, a malicious database server could cause crashes in various database functions, such as getAttribute(), execute(), fetch() and others by returning invalid response data that is not parsed correctly by the driver. This can result in crashes, denial of service or potentially memory corruption.
 (CVE-2021-21704)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1188035

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21704

http://www.nessus.org/u?cd2c97ac

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152269

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2638-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/7/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21704

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-pear, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php72, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-wddx, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-imap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-pear-archive_tar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-dba, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-pspell, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-xmlreader, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php72-sodium

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: 8/6/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/22/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21704

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2638-1