SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php74 (SUSE-SU-2022:0530-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158244

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2022:0530-1 advisory.

- The zend_string_extend function in Zend/zend_string.h in PHP through 7.1.5 does not prevent changes to string objects that result in a negative length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a script's use of .= with a long string. (CVE-2017-8923)

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/1038980

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8923

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d8384c5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158244

File Name: suse_SU-2022-0530-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/22/2022

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: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-8923

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: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: 2/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-8923

IAVB: 2017-B-0060-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:0530-1