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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : php74 (SUSE-SU-2021:3726-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 155635

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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-2021:3726-1 advisory.

 - In PHP versions 7.3.x up to and including 7.3.31, 7.4.x below 7.4.25 and 8.0.x below 8.0.12, when running PHP FPM SAPI with main FPM daemon process running as root and child worker processes running as lower- privileged users, it is possible for the child processes to access memory shared with the main process and write to it, modifying it in a way that would cause the root process to conduct invalid memory reads and writes, which can be used to escalate privileges from local unprivileged user to the root user.
 (CVE-2021-21703)

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/1192050

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-21703

http://www.nessus.org/u?cae5c080

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 155635

File Name: suse_SU-2021-3726-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/19/2021

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21703

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-intl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gettext, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-calendar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fastcgi, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-snmp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-readline, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-tidy, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-enchant, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sockets, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-zlib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-iconv, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-odbc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fpm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-bz2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-zip, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-fileinfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-opcache, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-dom, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ctype, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-json, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-curl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-phar, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sodium, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-gd, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-openssl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-shmop, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-sqlite, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:apache2-mod_php74, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-exif, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-posix, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-xsl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-pdo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-soap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-ftp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:php74-dba

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: 11/18/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21703

IAVA: 2021-A-0503-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:3726-1