PHP 5.3 < 5.3.3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 48245

Synopsis

The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is affected by multiple flaws.

Description

According to its banner, the version of PHP 5.3 installed on the remote host is older than 5.3.3. Such versions may be affected by several security issues :

- An error exists when processing invalid XML-RPC requests that can lead to a NULL pointer dereference. (bug #51288) (CVE-2010-0397)

- An error exists in the function 'shm_put_var' that is related to resource destruction.

- An error exists in the function 'fnmatch' that can lead to stack exhaustion. (CVE-2010-1917)

- A memory corruption error exists related to call-time pass by reference and callbacks.

- The dechunking filter is vulnerable to buffer overflow.

- An error exists in the sqlite extension that could allow arbitrary memory access.

- An error exists in the 'phar' extension related to string format validation.

- The functions 'mysqlnd_list_fields' and 'mysqlnd_change_user' are vulnerable to buffer overflow.

- The Mysqlnd extension is vulnerable to buffer overflow attack when handling error packets.

- The following functions are not properly protected against function interruptions :

addcslashes, chunk_split, html_entity_decode, iconv_mime_decode, iconv_substr, iconv_mime_encode, htmlentities, htmlspecialchars, str_getcsv, http_build_query, strpbrk, strtr, str_pad, str_word_count, wordwrap, strtok, setcookie, strip_tags, trim, ltrim, rtrim, substr_replace, parse_str, pack, unpack, uasort, preg_match, strrchr (CVE-2010-1860, CVE-2010-1862, CVE-2010-1864, CVE-2010-2097, CVE-2010-2100, CVE-2010-2101, CVE-2010-2190, CVE-2010-2191, CVE-2010-2484)

- The following opcodes are not properly protected against function interruptions :

ZEND_CONCAT, ZEND_ASSIGN_CONCAT, ZEND_FETCH_RW, XOR (CVE-2010-2191)

- The default session serializer contains an error that can be exploited when assigning session variables having user defined names. Arbitrary serialized values can be injected into sessions by including the PS_UNDEF_MARKER, '!', character in variable names.

- A use-after-free error exists in the function 'spl_object_storage_attach'. (CVE-2010-2225)

- An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the function 'var_export' when handling certain error conditions. (CVE-2010-2531)

Solution

Upgrade to PHP version 5.3.3 or later.

See Also

http://www.php.net/releases/5_3_3.php

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.3

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 48245

File Name: php_5_3_3.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 8/4/2010

Updated: 11/22/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2007-1581

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:php:php

Required KB Items: www/PHP

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/27/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1581, CVE-2010-0397, CVE-2010-1860, CVE-2010-1862, CVE-2010-1864, CVE-2010-1917, CVE-2010-2097, CVE-2010-2100, CVE-2010-2101, CVE-2010-2190, CVE-2010-2191, CVE-2010-2225, CVE-2010-2484, CVE-2010-2531, CVE-2010-3062, CVE-2010-3063, CVE-2010-3064, CVE-2010-3065

BID: 38708, 40461, 40948, 41991

SECUNIA: 39675, 40268