Fedora Core 4 : php-5.0.4-10.3 (2005-518)

high Nessus Plugin ID 18625

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update includes the PEAR XML_RPC 1.3.1 package, which fixes a security issue in the XML_RPC server implementation. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-1921 to this issue.

The bundled version of shtool is also updated, to fix some temporary file handling races. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2005-1751 to this issue.

Bug fixes for the dom, ldap, and gd extensions are also included in this update.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18625

File Name: fedora_2005-518.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 7/6/2005

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-ncurses, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-pear, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-xmlrpc, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:4

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2005

Exploitable With

Metasploit (PHP XML-RPC Arbitrary Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1921

FEDORA: 2005-518

Detections

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