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CentOS 5 / 6 : php / php53 (CESA-2012:0019)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 57488
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Synopsis
The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.Description
Updated php53 and php packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.
PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.
It was found that the hashing routine used by PHP arrays was susceptible to predictable hash collisions. If an HTTP POST request to a PHP application contained many parameters whose names map to the same hash value, a large amount of CPU time would be consumed. This flaw has been mitigated by adding a new configuration directive, max_input_vars, that limits the maximum number of parameters processed per request. By default, max_input_vars is set to 1000.
(CVE-2011-4885)
An integer overflow flaw was found in the PHP exif extension. On 32-bit systems, a specially crafted image file could cause the PHP interpreter to crash or disclose portions of its memory when a PHP script tries to extract Exchangeable image file format (Exif) metadata from the image file. (CVE-2011-4566)
Red Hat would like to thank oCERT for reporting CVE-2011-4885. oCERT acknowledges Julian Walde and Alexander Klink as the original reporters of CVE-2011-4885.
All php53 and php users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to resolve these issues. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Solution
Update the affected php and / or php53 packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 57488
File Name: centos_RHSA-2012-0019.nasl
Version: 1.19
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: CentOS Local Security Checks
Published: 1/12/2012
Updated: 1/4/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 5.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4566
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-pspell, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-embedded, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-xml, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-cli, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-xml, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-odbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-pspell, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-odbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-pdo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-cli, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-dba, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-process, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-tidy, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-intl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-imap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-process, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-enchant, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-soap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-zts, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-intl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-soap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-xmlrpc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-dba, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-gd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-gd, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php53-pdo, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-recode
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/CentOS/release, Host/CentOS/rpm-list
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 1/11/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/29/2011
Exploitable With
Core Impact
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2011-4566, CVE-2011-4885
RHSA: 2012:0019