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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : php (MDVSA-2008:127)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 38042

Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A number of vulnerabilities have been found and corrected in PHP :

The htmlentities() and htmlspecialchars() functions in PHP prior to 5.2.5 accepted partial multibyte sequences, which has unknown impact and attack vectors (CVE-2007-5898).

The output_add_rewrite_var() function in PHP prior to 5.2.5 rewrites local forms in which the ACTION attribute references a non-local URL, which could allow a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading the requests for this URL (CVE-2007-5899).

php-cgi in PHP prior to 5.2.6 does not properly calculate the length of PATH_TRANSLATED, which has unknown impact and attack vectors (CVE-2008-0599).

The escapeshellcmd() API function in PHP prior to 5.2.6 has unknown impact and context-dependent attack vectors related to incomplete multibyte characters (CVE-2008-2051).

Weaknesses in the GENERATE_SEED macro in PHP prior to 4.4.8 and 5.2.5 were discovered that could produce a zero seed in rare circumstances on 32bit systems and generations a portion of zero bits during conversion due to insufficient precision on 64bit systems (CVE-2008-2107, CVE-2008-2108).

The IMAP module in PHP uses obsolete API calls that allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long IMAP request (CVE-2008-2829).

In addition, this update also corrects an issue with some float to string conversions.

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 38042

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2008-127.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64php5_common5, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libphp5_common5, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-bz2, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-calendar, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-cgi, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-ctype, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-curl, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-dbase, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-dom, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-exif, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-fcgi, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-mysqli, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-ncurses, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-openssl, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pcntl, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pdo_dblib, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pdo_mysql, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pdo_odbc, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pdo_pgsql, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pdo_sqlite, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-posix, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-filter, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-ftp, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-gettext, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-gmp, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-hash, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-iconv, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-json, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-mcrypt, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-mhash, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-mime_magic, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-ming, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-mssql, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-xmlreader, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-xmlwriter, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-xsl, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-zlib, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-pspell, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-readline, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-recode, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-session, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-shmop, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-simplexml, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-sockets, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-sysvmsg, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-sysvsem, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-sysvshm, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-tidy, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-tokenizer, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-wddx, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:php-xml

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/3/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5898, CVE-2007-5899, CVE-2008-0599, CVE-2008-2051, CVE-2008-2107, CVE-2008-2108, CVE-2008-2829

BID: 26403, 29829

CWE: 119, 189, 200

MDVSA: 2008:127