Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
Update to PHP 5.3.3 Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.3: * Rewrote var_export() to use smart_str rather than output buffering, prevents data disclosure if a fatal error occurs (CVE-2010-2531). * Fixed a possible resource destruction issues in shm_put_var(). * Fixed a possible information leak because of interruption of XOR operator. * Fixed a possible memory corruption because of unexpected call-time pass by refernce and following memory clobbering through callbacks. * Fixed a possible memory corruption in ArrayObject::uasort(). * Fixed a possible memory corruption in parse_str(). * Fixed a possible memory corruption in pack(). * Fixed a possible memory corruption in substr_replace(). * Fixed a possible memory corruption in addcslashes(). * Fixed a possible stack exhaustion inside fnmatch(). * Fixed a possible dechunking filter buffer overflow. * Fixed a possible arbitrary memory access inside sqlite extension. * Fixed string format validation inside phar extension. * Fixed handling of session variable serialization on certain prefix characters. * Fixed a NULL pointer dereference when processing invalid XML-RPC requests (Fixes CVE-2010-0397, bug #51288). * Fixed SplObjectStorage unserialization problems (CVE-2010-2225). * Fixed possible buffer overflows in mysqlnd_list_fields, mysqlnd_change_user. * Fixed possible buffer overflows when handling error packets in mysqlnd. Full upstream Changelog: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.3
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected maniadrive, php and / or php-eaccelerator packages.
Plugin Details
File Name: fedora_2010-11428.nasl
Agent: unix
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:maniadrive, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-eaccelerator
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2010