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Fedora 20 : php-5.5.20-2.fc20 (2014-17229)

high Nessus Plugin ID 80290

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

18 Dec 2014, PHP 5.5.20\\r\\n\\r\\nCore:\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68091 (Some Zend headers lack appropriate extern 'C' blocks). (Adam)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68185 ('Inconsistent insteadof definition.'- incorrectly triggered). (Julien)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68370 ('unset($this)' can make the program crash). (Laruence)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68545 (NULL pointer dereference in unserialize.c). (Anatol)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68594 (Use after free vulnerability in unserialize()). (CVE-2014-8142) (Stefan Esser)\\r\\n\\r\\nDate:\\r\\n* Fixed day_of_week function as it could sometimes return negative values internally.
(Derick)\\r\\n\\r\\nFPM:\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68381 (fpm_unix_init_main ignores log_level). (David Zuelke, Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68420 (listen=9000 listens to ipv6 localhost instead of all addresses).
(Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68421 (access.format='%R' doesn't log ipv6 address). (Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68423 (PHP-FPM will no longer load all pools). (Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68428 (listen.allowed_clients is IPv4 only). (Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68452 (php-fpm man page is oudated). (Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed request #68458 (Change pm.start_servers default warning to notice). (David Zuelke, Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68463 (listen.allowed_clients can silently result in no allowed access). (Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed request #68391 (php-fpm conf files loading order). (Florian Margaine, Remi)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68478 (access.log don't use prefix). (Remi)\\r\\n\\r\\nMcrypt:\\r\\n* Fixed possible read after end of buffer and use after free.
(Dmitry)\\r\\n\\r\\nPDO_pgsql:\\r\\n* Fixed bug #66584 (Segmentation fault on statement deallocation) (Matteo)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #67462 (PDO_PGSQL::beginTransaction() wrongly throws exception when not in transaction) (Matteo)\\r\\n* Fixed bug #68351 (PDO::PARAM_BOOL and ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES misbehaving) (Matteo)\\r\\n\\r\\nzlib:\\r\\n* Fixed bug #53829 (Compiling PHP with large file support will replace function gzopen by gzopen64) (Sascha Kettler, Matteo)\\r\\n

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=1175718

http://www.nessus.org/u?2110b79c

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 80290

File Name: fedora_2014-17229.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/30/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8142

BID: 71791

FEDORA: 2014-17229