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RHEL 5 : php53 (RHSA-2013:1825)

high Nessus Plugin ID 78987

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated php53 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 and 5.9 Extended Update Support.

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 memory corruption flaw was found in the way the openssl_x509_parse() function of the PHP openssl extension parsed X.509 certificates. A remote attacker could use this flaw to provide a malicious self-signed certificate or a certificate signed by a trusted authority to a PHP application using the aforementioned function, causing the application to crash or, possibly, allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the PHP interpreter.
(CVE-2013-6420)

Red Hat would like to thank the PHP project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges Stefan Esser as the original reporter of this issue.

All php53 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:1825

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2013-6420

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 78987

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2013-1825.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/8/2014

Updated: 1/14/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-pspell, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-soap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-mbstring, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-odbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-pgsql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-bcmath, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-debuginfo, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-xml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-intl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-pdo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-dba, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-imap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-gd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-xmlrpc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5.9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53-process, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:php53

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/11/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-6420

RHSA: 2013:1825