Fedora 19 : php-5.5.16-1.fc19 (2014-9679)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 77481

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

21 Aug 2014, PHP 5.5.16

Core :

- Fixed bug #67693 (incorrect push to the empty array) (Tjerk)

- Fixed bug #67717 (segfault in dns_get_record).
(CVE-2014-3597) (Remi)

COM :

- Fixed missing type checks in com_event_sink (Yussuf Khalil, Stas).

Fileinfo :

- Fixed bug #67705 (extensive backtracking in rule regular expression). (CVE-2014-3538) (Remi)

- Fixed bug #67716 (Segfault in cdf.c). (CVE-2014-3587) (Remi)

FPM :

- Fixed bug #67635 (php links to systemd libraries without using pkg-config). (pacho at gentoo.org, Remi)

GD :

- Fixed bug #66901 (php-gd 'c_color' NULL pointer dereference). (CVE-2014-2497) (Remi)

- Fixed bug #67730 (Null byte injection possible with imagexxx functions). (CVE-2014-5120) (Ryan Mauger)

Milter :

- Fixed bug #67715 (php-milter does not build and crashes randomly). (Mike) OpenSSL :

- Fixed missing type checks in OpenSSL options (Yussuf Khalil, Stas).

readline :

- Fixed bug #55496 (Interactive mode doesn't force a newline before the prompt). (Bob, Johannes)

- Fixed bug #67496 (Save command history when exiting interactive shell with control-c). (Dmitry Saprykin, Johannes)

Sessions :

- Fixed missing type checks in php_session_create_id (Yussuf Khalil, Stas).

ODBC :

- Fixed bug #60616 (odbc_fetch_into returns junk data at end of multi-byte char fields). (Keyur)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 77481

File Name: fedora_2014-9679.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 9/3/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1571, CVE-2014-2497, CVE-2014-3587, CVE-2014-5120

BID: 52225, 66233, 69325, 69375

FEDORA: 2014-9679

Detections

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