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CentOS 5 / 6 : php (CESA-2013:1049)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 68858

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated php packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language commonly used with the Apache HTTP Server.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way PHP parsed deeply nested XML documents. If a PHP application used the xml_parse_into_struct() function to parse untrusted XML content, an attacker able to supply specially crafted XML could use this flaw to crash the application or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the PHP interpreter. (CVE-2013-4113)

All php users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected php packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?cb7dd83e

http://www.nessus.org/u?486e0768

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 68858

File Name: centos_RHSA-2013-1049.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/14/2013

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: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4113

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-zts, 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:php-recode, 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:php-imap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-pgsql, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-ncurses, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-mbstring, 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:php-cli, 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:php-fpm, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:php-enchant

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4113

RHSA: 2013:1049