Debian DSA-5082-1 : php7.4 - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158202

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5082 advisory.

Two security issues were found in PHP, a widely-used open source general purpose scripting language which could result in information disclosure or denial of service. For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 7.4.28-1+deb11u1. We recommend that you upgrade your php7.4 packages.
For the detailed security status of php7.4 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security- tracker.debian.org/tracker/php7.4

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

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

Solution

Upgrade the php7.4 packages.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 7.4.28-1+deb11u1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/php7.4

https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5082

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21707

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-21708

https://packages.debian.org/source/bullseye/php7.4

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158202

File Name: debian_DSA-5082.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/21/2022

Updated: 1/24/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21708

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-dba, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-xml, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-snmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-gd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-imap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-json, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-curl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-zip, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-sybase, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-tidy, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-soap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-xsl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-intl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-sqlite3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-gmp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-interbase, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-odbc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libphp7.4-embed, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-enchant, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-ldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-fpm, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-readline, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-opcache, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-bz2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-cli, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-cgi, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-pspell, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libapache2-mod-php7.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-mysql, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:11.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php7.4-phpdbg

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21707, CVE-2021-21708

IAVA: 2021-A-0566-S