RHEL 4 / 5 : php (RHSA-2010:0040)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 43883

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0040 advisory.

- php: exif_read_data crash on corrupted JPEG files (CVE-2009-2687)

- php: openssl extension: Incorrect verification of SSL certificate with NUL in name (CVE-2009-3291)

- php: exif extension: Multiple missing sanity checks in EXIF file processing (CVE-2009-3292)

- gd: insufficient input validation in _gdGetColors() (CVE-2009-3546)

- PHP: resource exhaustion attack via upload requests with lots of files (CVE-2009-4017)

- php: htmlspecialchars() insufficient checking of input for multi-byte encodings (CVE-2009-4142)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL php package based on the guidance in RHSA-2010:0040.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7cf096cd

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506896

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524222

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524228

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=529213

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540459

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548516

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0040

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 43883

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0040.nasl

Version: 1.30

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/14/2010

Updated: 4/21/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-3546

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-4142

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-domxml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-ncurses, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pear, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-soap, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php-pgsql

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: 1/13/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2687, CVE-2009-3291, CVE-2009-3292, CVE-2009-3546, CVE-2009-4017, CVE-2009-4142

BID: 35440, 36449, 36712, 37079

CWE: 20

RHSA: 2010:0040