RHEL 7 : rh-php73-php (RHSA-2022:5491)

high Nessus Plugin ID 162704

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-php73-php.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:5491 advisory.

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.

Security Fix(es):

* php: password of excessive length triggers buffer overflow leading to RCE (CVE-2022-31626)

* php: Local privilege escalation via PHP-FPM (CVE-2021-21703)

* php: special character breaks path in xml parsing (CVE-2021-21707)

* php: uninitialized array in pg_query_params() leading to RCE (CVE-2022-31625)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

* rh-php73: rebase to 7.3.33 (BZ#2100753)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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

Update the RHEL rh-php73-php package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:5491.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 162704

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-5491.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/4/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-31626

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-pspell, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-intl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-json, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-opcache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-soap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-process, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-recode, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-mysqlnd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-dbg, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-dba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-gmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-php73-php-pdo

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/4/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/25/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21703, CVE-2021-21707, CVE-2022-31625, CVE-2022-31626

CWE: 119, 120, 20, 824

RHSA: 2022:5491

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