Detections
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Ubuntu 4.10 : php4 vulnerabilities (USN-40-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 20657
Synopsis
The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.Description
Stefan Esser reported several buffer overflows in PHP's variable unserializing handling. These could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the server with the PHP interpreter's privileges by sending specially crafted input strings (form data, cookie values, and similar).Additionally, Ilia Alshanetsky discovered a buffer overflow in the exif_read_data() function. Attackers could execute arbitrary code on the server by sending a JPEG image with a very long 'sectionname' value to PHP applications that support image uploads.
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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: Critical
ID: 20657
File Name: ubuntu_USN-40-1.nasl
Version: 1.15
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Published: 1/15/2006
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libapache2-mod-php4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-cgi, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-curl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-domxml, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-gd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-ldap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-mcal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-mhash, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-odbc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-pear, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-recode, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-snmp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-sybase, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:php4-xslt, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10
Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release
Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2004
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2004-1019, CVE-2004-1065