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Fedora 20 : php-5.5.7-1.fc20 (2013-23164)

high Nessus Plugin ID 71549

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

12 Dec 2013, PHP 5.5.7

CLI server :

 - Added some MIME types to the CLI web server (Chris Jones)

 - Implemented FR #65917 (getallheaders() is not supported by the built-in web server) - also implements apache_response_headers() (Andrea Faulds)

Core :

 - Fixed bug #66094 (unregister_tick_function tries to cast a Closure to a string). (Laruence)

OPCache

 - Fixed bug #66176 (Invalid constant substitution).
 (Dmitry)

 - Fixed bug #65915 (Inconsistent results with require return value). (Dmitry)

 - Fixed bug #65559 (Opcache: cache not cleared if changes occur while running). (Dmitry)

OpenSSL :

 - Fixed memory corruption in openssl_x509_parse() (CVE-2013-6420). (Stefan Esser).

readline

 - Fixed Bug #65714 (PHP cli forces the tty to cooked mode). (Remi)

Backported from 5.5.8 :

 - fix zend_register_functions breaks reflection, php bug 66218

 - fix Heap buffer over-read in DateInterval, php bug 66060

 - fix fix overflow handling bug in non-x86

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 php package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1036830

http://www.nessus.org/u?5756969b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 71549

File Name: fedora_2013-23164.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6420

FEDORA: 2013-23164