RHEL 2.1 : php (RHSA-2007:0081)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 24697

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated PHP packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.

This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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

A number of buffer overflow flaws were found in the PHP session extension; the str_replace() function; and the imap_mail_compose() function. If very long strings were passed to the str_replace() function, an integer overflow could occur in memory allocation. If a script used the imap_mail_compose() function to create a new MIME message based on an input body from an untrusted source, it could result in a heap overflow. An attacker with access to a PHP application affected by any these issues could trigger the flaws and possibly execute arbitrary code as the 'apache' user. (CVE-2007-0906)

When unserializing untrusted data on 64-bit platforms, the zend_hash_init() function could be forced into an infinite loop, consuming CPU resources for a limited time, until the script timeout alarm aborted execution of the script. (CVE-2007-0988)

If the wddx extension was used to import WDDX data from an untrusted source, certain WDDX input packets could expose a random portion of heap memory. (CVE-2007-0908)

If the odbc_result_all() function was used to display data from a database, and the database table contents were under an attacker's control, a format string vulnerability was possible which could allow arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2007-0909)

A one byte memory read always occurs before the beginning of a buffer.
This could be triggered, for example, by any use of the header() function in a script. However it is unlikely that this would have any effect. (CVE-2007-0907)

Several flaws in PHP could allow attackers to 'clobber' certain super-global variables via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2007-0910)

Users of PHP should upgrade to these updated packages which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Red Hat would like to thank Stefan Esser for his help diagnosing these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 24697

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0081.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 2/23/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-manual, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pgsql, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1

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: 2/21/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/13/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0906, CVE-2007-0907, CVE-2007-0908, CVE-2007-0909, CVE-2007-0910, CVE-2007-0988, CVE-2007-1380, CVE-2007-1701, CVE-2007-1825

BID: 22496

CWE: 20, 399

RHSA: 2007:0081

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