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Debian DSA-1775-1 : php-json-ext - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 36189

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that php-json-ext, a JSON serialiser for PHP, is prone to a denial of service attack, when receiving a malformed string via the json_decode function.

Solution

Upgrade the php-json-ext packages.

For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.1-3.2+etch1.

The stable distribution (lenny) does not contain a separate php-json-ext package, but includes it in the php5 packages, which will be fixed soon.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1775

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 36189

File Name: debian_DSA-1775.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/21/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:php-json-ext, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 4/20/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-1271

DSA: 1775